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Excerpt from Mignon, Vol. 1 But Mrs. Stratheden's at homes are very di'erent from the general run of those vapid and dreary entertainments (heaven save the mark that are made nowadays to do duty for more genial and costly hospitality. Men go to them, yes, actually men; not decrepit old fellows nor unedged youths, but men, -the sort of men you see in club windows, on four-in-hands, at St. Stephen's and elsewhere. The State, the Bar, the Army, are represented in her drawing-rooms, and, very occa sionally, the Church. There is one pleasant-faced, cheery mannered divine of most eloquent tongue and practical good sense, who thinks a half-hour now and then not at all ill spent at one of these réunions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.