However, there was no help for it, and the teatray came, with seven cups and saucers, and breadand-butter on the same scale. Mrs. Bardell was unanimously voted into the chair, and Mrs. Rogers being stationed on her right hand, and Mrs. Raddle on her left, the meal proceeded with great merriment and success.
'How sweet the country is, to be sure!' sighed Mrs.Rogers; 'I almost wish I lived in it always.'
'Oh, you wouldn't like that, ma'am,' replied Mrs.Bardell, rather hastily; for it was not at all advisable,with reference to the lodgings, to encourage such notions; 'you wouldn't like it, ma'am.'