Excerpt from Tales and Novels, Vol. 16 of 18 Your servants, said Alfred, told me that you were not at home, but I told them that I knew the dean would be at home to an old friend. You are very good - (said Buckhurst) - you do me a great deal of honour, said the dean. Two different manners appeared in the same person one natural - belonging to his former; the other assumed, proper, as he thought, for his present self, or rather for his present situation. Won't you be seated? I hope all our friends Mrs. Buckhurst, or, as she was called, Mrs. Dean Falconer, made divers motions, with a very ugly chin, and stood as if she thought there ought to be an introduction. The dean knew it, but being ashamed to introduce her, determined against it. Alfred stood in suspension, waiting their mutual pleasure. 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.