So-and-so”; although it is assumed, of course, that the “feeling” is to be reciprocal. Among our still more modern and dashing young gentlemen⁠—who are extremely averse to superfluous effort and supremely indifferent to the purity of their native language⁠—the formula is still further curtailed by the use of “to feel” in a technical sense, meaning, “to recommend-for-the-purposes-of-feeling-and-being-felt”; and at this moment the “slang” of polite or fast society in the upper classes sanctions such a barbarism as “ Mr. Smith, permit me to feel Mr. Jones.”