The Snuff-box


AT a party in Portman Square, Brummell's snuff-box was particularly

admired: it was handed round, and a gentleman, finding it rather

difficult to open, incautiously applied a dessert-knife to the lid. Poor

Brummell was on thorns; at last he could not contain himself any longer,

and, addressing the host, said, with his characteristic quaintness,

Will you be good enough to tell your friend that my snuff-box is not

an oyster.



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