George Lamb expressed himself quite of this opinion.
It was past four o'clock in the morning when I got home.
The Duke of Leinster, Harry De Roos, and Sophia dined with me on the following day. Just as we were about to sit down to dinner Lord Deerhurst was announced.
"Dear me, how tiresome," said Sophia.
"Do not send him here, pray," said Leinster and de Roos in the same breath. I went down to ask him what he wanted, and informed him of my dinner-party, with whom I knew he was unacquainted.
"Oh, I wish much to know the Duke of Leinster, so pray do introduce me," said Deerhurst.
"No," I answered, "I shall do no such thing. That's frank and flat. If you don't like Sophia to dine here you may, with her consent, take her away with you, but I will never present you to any friend of mine. Sophia told you this morning that she was to meet the Duke of Leinster and his cousin."
"Certainly," answered Deerhurst, "I have not the slightest objection; but do, there's a dear good creature, present me to the Duke of Leinster."
"You are, in all and everything, the meanest man on earth," was my civil remark.