 That respectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps, of the first men in the kingdom in point of fashion and fortune, supping at little tables covered with a napkin,...  Inns and Taverns of Old London - Page 227by Henry C. Shelley - 1909Full view - About this book
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