At such moments as that the hopes of the patriotic poet for the good of the Civil Service were not strictly fulfilled in the heart of Macassar Jones.

Oh, if the Lady Crinoline could but have known! "It is unnecessary also to describe the strange and hidden mechanism of that mysterious petticoat which gave such full dimensions, such ample sweeping proportions to the _tout ensemble_ of the lady's appearance.

It is unnecessary, and would perhaps be improper, and as far as I am concerned, is certainly impossible." Here Charley blushed, as Mrs.Woodward looked at him from over the top of the paper.
"Let it suffice to say that she could envelop a sofa without the slightest effort, throw her draperies a yard and a half from her on either side without any appearance of stretching, completely fill a carriage; or, which was more frequently her fate, entangle herself all but inextricably in a cab.
"A word, however, must be said of those little feet that peeped out now and again so beautifully from beneath the artistic constructions above alluded to-of the feet, or perhaps rather of the shoes.

But yet, what can be said of them successfully?
That French name so correctly spelt, so elaborately accented, so beautifully finished in gold letters, which from their form, however, one would say that the _cordonnier_ must have imported from England, was only visible to those favoured knights who were occasionally permitted to carry the shoes home in their pockets.
"But a word must be said about the hair dressed _a l'imperatrice_, redolent of the sweetest patchouli, disclosing all the glories of that ingenuous, but perhaps too open brow.

A word must be said; but, alas! how inefficacious to do justice to the ingenuity so wonderfully displayed! The hair of the Lady Crinoline was perhaps more lovely than abundant: to produce that glorious effect, that effect which has now symbolized among English lasses the head-dress _a l'imperatrice_ as the one idea of feminine beauty, every hair was called on to give its separate aid.