Social life in the early republic . uld venture uponsuch flights of fancy, would Juliet take the matterau serieux and follow Romeo into the garden towitness the fatal leap ? We have it upon the authority of Sir AugustusFoster that Georgetown was a famous marriagemarket, the balls being attended by the families ofmembers and others who came for the the excess of small talk, the small amountof literature and improving conversation. the pre-dilection of the fair ones for the uncertainties of loo and the beguilements of rouge and powder,Sir Augustus frankly avows that he has never s
Social life in the early republic . uld venture uponsuch flights of fancy, would Juliet take the matterau serieux and follow Romeo into the garden towitness the fatal leap ? We have it upon the authority of Sir AugustusFoster that Georgetown was a famous marriagemarket, the balls being attended by the families ofmembers and others who came for the the excess of small talk, the small amountof literature and improving conversation. the pre-dilection of the fair ones for the uncertainties of loo and the beguilements of rouge and powder,Sir Augustus frankly avows that he has never seenprettier, more lively, or better tempered girls any-where—mostly from Virginia and Maryland. . .Much dancing, he adds, much singing of popularand sentimental ditties. The favorite song, JustLike Love in Yonder Rose. No matter how thiswas sung, the words alone were the men may read between the lines that the secretary tothe British Legation was young and unmarried, andhad probably been warned by prudent parents in86. Mrs. Edward Lloyd Mrs. John MasonBy Bouchet
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