are all lighted up, and the hour of ceremony begins.

8. I say _Jack Triplett_ came in, and singing (for he is really good
company) 'Every feature, charming creature,'--he went on. It is a most
unreasonable thing that people cannot go peaceably to see their friends,
but these murderers are let loose.

9. Such a shape! such an air! what a glance was that as her chariot
passed by mine!--My lady herself interrupted him: Pray, who is this fine
thing?--I warrant, says another, 'tis the creature I was telling your
ladyship of just now.

10. You were telling of? says _Jack_; I wish I had been so happy as to
have come in and heard you, for I have not words to say what she is: but
if an agreeable height, a modest air, a virgin shame, and impatience of
being beheld, amidst a blaze of ten thousand charms--The whole room flew
out--Oh, Mr. _Triplett_! When Mrs. _Lofty_, a known prude, said she
believed she knew whom the gentleman meant; but she was, indeed, as he
civilly represented her, impatient of being beheld. Then turning to the
lady next her--The most unbred creature you ever saw.

11. Another pursued the discourse:--As unbred, madam, as you may think
her, she is extremely belied if she is the novice she appears; she was
last week at a ball till two in the morning: Mr. _Triplett_ knows
whether he was the happy man that took care of her home; but--This was
followed by some particular exception that each woman in the room made
to some peculiar grace or advantage; so that Mr. _Triplett_ was beaten
from one limb and feature to another, till he was forced to resign the
whole woman.