text:  Very few of those whom fortune has released from the necessity of following some laborious profession are capable of passing their time agreeably without the assistance of company; not from a spirit of gaiety which calls on society for indulgence--not from any pleasure they take in conversation where they are frequently languid and taciturn but to rival each other in the luxury of the table or by a great _variety of indescribable airs_ to make others _feel the pain of mortification_