opine that every other age had the best of the always come (0 hat conclusion sehenever" there ting anda. chance to" step into the tthe thing one hears regretted most frequently about The Mpretent generation ta the thread-bare condition of conversation If one really regrets all thoseyreficctive moments of the tea hour, dear tiresome old folk who in cen-when the only impedimenta to con-turies gone by devoted the greater|versation were the part of their leisure to conyers: fon, [of the fire or the tone must accept the obvious fact] sive attacks of the—coolie, that they did not suffer from the|eracking walnuts for New Year's mechanical checks to conversation}eakes, somewhere belowstairs. At Which we imagine to be our lot to-such moments the shades of those pleasantly garrulous people, the 'A single day in Shanghai shows|Thackerays and the Dr. Johnsons, emanate ripe a [ago andthe engranmatie Aca sha sign Nanking Road neo Thane paces atthe Sree who had never before gazed upo imagination expires in an explosive] humour with trying to] the wonders of Shanghai, To the [Durst Dest of our united abilities, we tried Visualize these lions of the drawing to renew old contacts, and comment|f0om" making conversation at al upon hi rhs, deaths, marriages and Shanghai tea dance, sundry matters of purely personal 'There was, we remember, one ra-interest jostling along more or lo: Jeing day when tea was essayed. side by side, This you will] deserted hotel. It was found ay, pre-doomed to meet' disaster the two, slightly: race-worn imbibers besides which, it was also inclose had lost their conversational apbably bad form to spread one's most lamb, through disuse, what with not Ridden thoughts about in the dut-having a dance orchestra to impair ter of Nanking Rond, But the it, and nothing came of the moment Such is the title given cly 4 French 17th-century writer. to INS. books which keep a faithful record from generation to generation of the doings of every member of the family. Oceasionalky the moral of a life was pointed by a maxim o motto, Not only births, marriages, and deaths, but genealogy, alliances, and inventory of possessions werd "entered. There are French fami-who have hag such books in their possession for centuries; for instance, Curieres de Castelnau pre serve to this day a series handed down from father to son since 1346.
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