text:  Of my companions at that well-remembered supper one is a staid and orthodox divine; one a rising barrister; a third a respectable country gentleman justice of the peace "and quorum;" a fourth they tell me a semi Papist but set us all down together in that same room draw the champagne corks and let some Lethe (the said champagne if you please) wash out all that has passed over us in the last five years and my word on it three out of four of us are but boys still; and though much shaving pearl powder and carmine might fail to make of any of the party a heroine of any more delicate class than Meg Merrilies I have no doubt we could all of us once more smoke a pipe in character at "The Three Pigeons