F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 22

famous physician sips his/her wine;  with a quarter, the of father
planter exchanges his/her jokes of saliant;  with a fifth, Doctor Handy the
statesman-who, to arrange his to the fashion wife a northern lady of
great beauty, has passed as soon as from the country in the city, it holds
on a meaningless conversation. In the angle of lefthand, sat on a
ottoman and respect to the others as if a barrier had put
among them, it is two men they designated players of hazard. His/her Southerner
gentleman is, with the few exceptions, a votary of the exciting vice;
but he who him ago its profession truncates the thread that has limited him
to society. And there he/she doesn't sit away from these members of the
sporting fraternity, the tall one, slender figure of a man the habited in
the attire of a quaker. He concerns all around him with the eye
of a philosopher, it has a white and flowing beard, a blue mild, happy
you look, a short but full nose, an oval and pale face, an I uniformly-cut
you speak to emphatic way and an agreeable expression of expression. Him intensely
clocks every movement of the inhabitants, and if one had to board him/it,
he will respond in soft accents, friendly. He seems known to Mrs.
Flamingo that he concerns with a mysterious gait and addresses
as ago a father his/her child. The old hostess finds anybody the profit of his
visits, for "he is only a moralist", she says, and its name is Solon
--; and the best people love him more as more they know him/it to them.

Mrs. Flamingo is returned, you/he/she followed from a colored gentleman in
bright livery, being born on a silver cart two seductive bottles of the
sparkling nectar and rich-cut wine glasses and different. "There! there!" it says
the old hostess, sharpening to the centre-table on that the
colored man deposits them, and you/he/she starts systematizing some dozen
glasses, as she prepares him to extract the corks. She now fills the
glasses with the drink that foams that the waiter again
places on the cart, and kindly it serves to the inhabitants in which