Was the organ of Exeter to be silenced to please another?
Stamford retired, and distributed his forces into Plymouth and Exeter.
"A scandal, my dear Reginald, is as much to be avoided at Monaco or any of those places as at Exeter, let us say."
He had never before been further from home than Exeter; and his single visit to that city had formed the landmark of his life.
In a great City Snob firm there is generally one partner whose name is down for charities, and who frequents Exeter Hall; you may catch a glimpse of another (a scientific City Snob) at my Lord N----'s SOIREES, or the lectures of the London Institution; of a third (a City Snob of taste) at picture-auctions, at private views of exhibitions, or at the Opera or the Philharmonic.