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le on having escaped uneaten from some place to which he never ought to have gone. "She herself was fond of having occasionally what she called 'a social evening. ' This recreation was held on a Saturday, when there was no work at the Statesman office, when the principal members of the staff would be bidden, and when the condiments provided would be brown bread and butters rolled into corrects, tea and coffee, the lemonade, while the recreation consisted in conversation (among men who had met for every night during the past twelve months), and in examining photographs of the city of Prague. The ribald young men at the office spoke of Mrs. Harding as 'Plutarch,' a name given to her one night when Mr. Slater, the dramatic critic, asked her what novel she was then reading, and she replied, 'Novel, sts! Plutarch's Lives! But they all liked her, notwithstanding; and for her sake and their dear old chief's did penitential duty at the occasional 'social evenings' in Decorum street."