This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ... and a file of military-looking gentlemen dressed richly, along the flancs of the table. What a spectacle! Ladies eating out of gold, and kings to wait upon them. I sat opposite the royal ladies, and looked particularly at the little princess Amelia, with her pouting lip "as if some bee had stung it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ... and a file of military-looking gentlemen dressed richly, along the flancs of the table. What a spectacle! Ladies eating out of gold, and kings to wait upon them. I sat opposite the royal ladies, and looked particularly at the little princess Amelia, with her pouting lip "as if some bee had stung it lately." She just tasted a little of the roast beef, and the fish, and the capon and other delicacies of the season; and then a bit of plum-pudding, and some grapes, and peaches, and apricots and strawberries; and then she sipped a glass of port, and when her glass was out my Lord Granville with great presence of mind filled her another; and then she finished off with a little burgundy, champagne, hermitage, frontignac, bucella, and old hock--all which she drank with her own dear little lips. These delicate creatures do almost every thing else by deputy, but eating and drinking and some other little matters they attend to in propria persona.--Aftor the ladies, we gentlemen were admitted, en masse, with not a little scrambling; which was the objectionable part of the fete. I was hungry enough to have sold my birth right, but did not taste of any thing; it required not only physical strength, but effrontery, and I have been laboring under the oppressions of modesty all my life, tfave you ever been to a dinner at the--" White House?" that's like the finale of the king's supper in the Salle de Diane. In my greener days I saw the dance in my native Tuscarora, and went to see it twenty miles of a night upon a fleet horse, my partner behind, twining around my waist her "marriageable arms." I have now seen the balls of the French court, which are called the most splendid of the world. The difference of dress, of graces and such particulars, how vastly...
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