Chapter 33: XXXII

XXXII Describes, far more fully than the court newsman ever did, a bachelor’s party, given by Mr. Bob Sawyer at his lodgings in the borough. There is a repose about Lant Street, in the Borough, which sheds a gentle melancholy upon the soul. There are always a good many houses to let in the street: it is a by-street too, and its dullness is soothing. A house in Lant Street would not come within the denomination of a first-rate residence, in the strict acceptation of the term; but it is a m…