, it was a very good joke when I heard it—as I did from an ear-witness—and is only spoilt in my narration.
The
has closed with a dandy ball
;—but I have dinners with the Harrowbys, Rogers, and Frere and Mackintosh
, where I shall drink your health in a silent bumper, and regret your absence till "too much canaries" wash away my memory, or render it superfluous by a vision of you at the opposite side of the table.