Page:Eliot - Felix Holt, the Radical, vol. I, 1866.djvu/202

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FELIX HOLT.

"That's none to his credit," said Mr Sircome.

The conversation had in this way broken up into tête-à-tête, and the hilarity of the evening might be considered a failure. Still the punch was drunk, the accounts were duly swelled, and, notwithstanding the innovating spirit of the time. Sir Maximus Debarry's establishment was kept up in a sound hereditary British manner.