"That lady in the red turban, with the handsome daughters, is Lady Budge, wife of the eminent judge of that name--everybody was astonished that he was not made Chief Justice, and elevated to the Peerage--the only objection (as I have heard confidentially) was on the part of a late sovereign, who said he never could consent to have a peer of the name of Budge.

Her ladyship was of humble, I have heard even menial, station originally, but becomes her present rank, dispenses the most elegant hospitality at her mansion in Connaught Terrace, and is a pattern as a wife and a mother.

The young man talking to her daughter is a young barrister, already becoming celebrated as a contributor to some of our principal reviews." "Who is that cavalry officer in a white waistcoat talking to the Jew with the beard ?" asks the Colonel.
"He, he! That cavalry officer is another literary man of celebrity, and by profession an attorney.

But he has quitted the law for the Muses, and it would appear that the Nine are never wooed except by gentlemen with mustachios." "Never wrote a verse in my life," says the Colonel, laughing, and stroking his own.
"For I remark so many literary gentlemen with that decoration.

The Jew with the beard, as you call him, is Herr von Lungen, the eminent hautboy-player.