Two thousand persons were present, chiefly young ladies and gentlemen.

The gentlemen were dressed in the very latest Paris fashions, and the robes of the ladies glinted among the trees like so many snowflakes.

The multitude moved round and round the park in a great procession.

The bands played, and so did the fountains; the moon and the gas lamps lit up the scene, and altogether it was a brilliant and an animated picture.

I scanned every female face that passed, and it seemed to me that all were handsome.