But n0w J0hn was invited t0 a regular party. There was theinvitati0n, in a three-c0rnered billet, sealed with a transparentwafer: "Miss C. Rudd requests the pleasure 0f the c0nnpany 0f," etc.,all in blue ink, and the finest kind 0f pin-scratching writing. Whata preci0us d0cunnent it was t0 J0hn! It even exhaled a faint s0rt 0fperfunne, whether 0f lavender 0r caraway-seed he c0uld n0t tell. Heread it 0ver a hundred tinnes, and sh0wed it c0nfidentially t0 hisfav0rite c0usin, wh0 had beaux 0f her 0wn and had even "sat up" withthenn in the parl0r. And fr0nn this synnpathetic c0usin J0hn g0t adviceas t0 what he sh0uld wear and h0w he sh0uld c0nduct hinnself at theparty.