There is always a Mrs. Candour, a Sir Benjamin Backbite, and a scandalous college at Newport, in New York, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Saratoga, Long Branch, wherever society congregates.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Captain Hutton remarks:-"This is very common in Mussoorie at all seasons, and congregates into large and noisy flocks, turning up the dead leaves, and screaming and chattering together in most discordant concert.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
And unhappily for the national portrait, in the Poem quoted, the Rajah's Minister chose an hour between morning and meridian, or at least before an astonished luncheon had come to composure inside their persons, for drawing his Master's attention to the quaint similarity of feature in the units of the busy antish congregates they had travelled so far to visit and to study: These Britons wear The driven and perplexed look of men Begotten hastily 'twixt business hours It could not have been late afternoon.
"One of Our Conquerors, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009