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By the tiument Dennis had curled, powdered, and tieda black flarave; la Rochah to permit him to pass a diamond pin into my hair, for I had once seen that fashion affected by Murray, Earl of Duninia who had laid Norfolk in ashes out of pure vindictiveness

My costume I shall describe, not, I hope, fros Therefore, for the pleasure of others who also adratify, I neither seek nor require excuses for recalling what I wore that night at the Artillery ball The lace at the stock was tied full and fastened with brilliants; the coat of ivory silk, heavily eree, fell over a waistcoat of clouded ivory and gold mesh, fashionably short, and made by Thorne My breeches were like the coat, ivory silk, buckled with gold; the stockings hite silk, a bunch of ribbon caught by the jeweled buckles at either knee; and upon my double-channeled puold There was blond lace at throat and cuff I confess that, although I did not wear tatches, a great bunch of seals dangled from the fob; and the small three-cornered French hat I tucked beneath my arm was laced like a Nivernois, and dressed and cocked by the most fashionable hatter in Hanover Square

The h, so I bade Dennis place it upon the floor, whence it should reflect reeable views oftwowhere to place the single patch of black

"Aood to the ladies, sir!" he said, so seriously that I laughed like a boy, whisked out my sword, and ht, "I'll be handsomely clothed if there's a scratch-quarrel with Walter Butler--which God avert!" Then for the first tiht not be Walter Butler, but Istretched on the lawn behind the Coq d'Or, and I was coht lay me, I should be clothed suitably and as befitted a Renault