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acteristic expression of, all social
festivities, and which exhilarates or depresses–according as one is new
or old to it.

Elbridge Mavering kept looking at the faces of the young men as if he
expected to see a certain one; then he turned his eyes patiently upon.
the faces around him. He had been introduced to a good many persons, but
he had come to that time of life when an introduction; unless charged
with some special interest, only adds the pain of doubt to the wearisome
encounter of unfamiliar people; and he had unconsciously put on the
severity of a man who finds himself without acquaintance where others are
meeting friends, when a small man, with a neatly trimmed reddish-grey
beard and prominent eyes, stepped in front of him, and saluted him with
the “Hello, Mavering!” of a contemporary.

His face, after a moment of question, relaxed into joyful recognition.
“Why, John Munt! is that you?” he said, and he took into his large moist
palm the dry little hand of his friend, while they both broke out