Chap.

 1        3| evening, there were scarcely a dozen people in the drawing room.
 2        4|      could not have mustered a dozen napkins out of all her cupboards,
 3        4|       like that for at least a dozen or fifteen hours without
 4        8|    Fontan. She could not say a dozen words without lapsing into
 5        8|       by regaling quite half a dozen couples with capital wine
 6       12|        matter.~Till midnight a dozen gentlemen had stood talking
 7       13|       definitely got rid of. A dozen times she had put his money
 8       13|         Weren’t there always a dozen of ‘em squabbling who could
 9       13|    been countess or baroness a dozen times over and more, if
10       14|       door. There are nearly a dozen of them smoking cigars.”~