We are always glad to oblige by
omitting reference to a party, an engagement, a marriage, or any other social matter when valid reasons are shown to us for so doing. We must, however, decline in future to humour men's " fads " by leaving out their names on all occasions merely because they " don't like it. " In the cases where we have done so we have almost invariably been treated very " shabbily." One man no sooner < made himself (as he thought) "safe" than he blackguarded us behind our backs in a most shameful manner ; and another, whom we have always believed. to be the last fellow who would ask a comparative stranger a favour without taking care to return it, was requested by us to arrange a little matter (unconnected with ourselves) and refused.
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Observer, Volume 2, Issue 46, 30 July 1881, Page 518
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133We are always glad to oblige by Observer, Volume 2, Issue 46, 30 July 1881, Page 518
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