Chapter 15

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌⁠The Beast Party is over. It has not differed materially from its predecessors, though it may perhaps glory in the bad pre-eminence of having left even more ill-feeling and mortification in its wake than did they.

The little Evanses, indeed, bless its memory, gobbling the bonbons and strutting about the Vicarage garden in the masks and fools' caps that they have extracted out of its crackers. And La