the bright bar or kitchen on the right hand, where the less lofty customers of the house were in the habit
of assembling, the parlour on the left being reserved for the more select society in which Squire Cass
frequently enjoyed the double pleasure of conviviality and condescension. But the parlour was dark
to-night, the chief personages who ornamented its circle being all at Mrs. Osgoods birthday dance,
as Godfrey Cass was. And in consequence of this the party on the high-screened seats in the kitchen
was more numerous than usual; several personages, who would otherwise have been admitted into the
parlour and enlarged the opportunity of hectoring and condescension for their betters, being content this
evening to vary their enjoyment by taking their spirits-and-water where they could themselves hector and
condescend in company that called for beer.
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