I was heartily pleased I hold with Foker in "Pendennis" that every fellow likes a hand. And after dinner the Persians (as I will call them) have a kindly and courteous custom of praising their guests and to my astonishment and delight the speaker brought me into his oration and said the kindest and most glowing things imaginable about a translation I once made of the "Heptameron" of Margaret of Navarre. I was one guest among many there were explorers and ambassadors and great scientific personages and judges, and the author who has given the world the best laughter that it has enjoyed since Dickens died: in a word, I was in much more distinguished company than that to which I am accustomed. "Well, as I say, I found myself on a certain night a partaker of all this cheerfulness.
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