. Bird's eye views of society . under foot, with coats,Invernefs wrappers, and hats, all mingled together, and flung about in the wildeft diforder. Numbers are noufe ; the maids are fled, or out of their wits with perplexity;it is a wild hunt of ladies and gentlemen for their find them, fome dont; fome take what comes, fomego without taking anything; fome have even been knownto imagine they had a chance of recovering their property,by calling next day. And to think that there were fome people who movedheaven and earth to get invited to this party, while ofthofe who were there the g
. Bird's eye views of society . under foot, with coats,Invernefs wrappers, and hats, all mingled together, and flung about in the wildeft diforder. Numbers are noufe ; the maids are fled, or out of their wits with perplexity;it is a wild hunt of ladies and gentlemen for their find them, fome dont; fome take what comes, fomego without taking anything; fome have even been knownto imagine they had a chance of recovering their property,by calling next day. And to think that there were fome people who movedheaven and earth to get invited to this party, while ofthofe who were there the greater part feemed to think onlyof how they could get away fooneft, and in fafety! The change into the frefh air is pleafant after an atmof-phere of faded flowers, wax-lights, and fcent. There is awhole army of fervants about the door, the familiarfhouting of the linkman greets the ear, a long ftream ofcarriages, their lamps mining into the far diftance, meetsthe eye, while above are the ftars glittering in the cool,bright A Juvenile Party. A Juvenile Party.—3 till 7. ROM three till fevendoes not defcribe thetime of life of thecompany; it meansthe hours at whichthe party begins andends. Children now-a-daysare invited out veryloon after they comeinto the world; and to lay that youth and beauty at theage of three years are commonly feen at a juvenile partyis ro give a very faint idea of the facl. Babies areinvited ; and in the horizontal or recumbent ftage of theirdear little exiftences, before they have reached the perpen-dicular and toddling period; and the confequence is, thatportions of the company are carried into the arlembly by
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