Discipline Maintained
DISCIPLINE MAINTAINED At the time my story begins, I was in the habit of thinking of myself, to some extent at least, as a man of dignity and reserve, not given to an inordinate amount of emotional display; and yet I must admit that I was unable to completely disguise my astonishment--I say nothing of other, more complicated and perhaps darker feelings--when Mr. John Brummel, after a pleasant and quite sociable dinner at his house, to which he had generously...