Sir, since losing my pianist to a falling cask of Armagnac (the dearer victim of the tragedy), my luncheons have wanted for diversion. I have thus dispatched several staff to the musical tutelage of one Mme. Chasteté Buisson-Épais of Châtillon-sur-Loire,
Sir, My wife, the good Lady F____, instructs me that the modern house has music played by minstrels during dinner. I set about arranging the most musical of evenings; indeed after the gentlemen retired for cigars, the music was heard to play on for many a
