Excerpt from John Brownlow's Folks

Not that they would thoroughly enjoy the ceremony, as a ceremony. Far from it. An introduction is a stiff and formal piece of business at best. One is always glad when it is well over, and one can make the opening remarks concerning the company present, or the beauty of the weather, soon dropping easily into, "I've heard my friend speak of you so often!" whence the step to mutual confidences and personalities is short.

No, a social introduction is but an uncomfortably prickly hedge, at best, through which those who have clasped hands over it must press their way, if any pleasant understanding is to result.

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