Yet it must not be supposed that there is no distinction of classes: at this same ball I was looking among the many very beautiful girls I saw there for one more beautiful still, with whose lovely face I had been particularly struck at the school examination I have mentioned.

I could not find her, and asked a gentleman why the beautiful Miss C.was not there.
"You do not yet understand our aristocracy," he replied, "the family of Miss C.are mechanics." "But the young lady has been educated at the same school as these, whom I see here, and I know her brother has a shop in the town, quite as large, and apparently as prosperous, as those belonging to any of these young men.

What is the difference ?" "He is a mechanic; he assists in making the articles he sells; the others call themselves merchants." The dancing was not quite like, yet not very unlike, what we see at an assize or race-ball in a country town.

They call their dances cotillions instead of quadrilles, and the figures are called from the orchestra in English, which has very ludicrous effect on European ears.
The arrangements for the supper were very singular, but eminently characteristic of the country.

The gentlemen had a splendid entertainment spread for them in another large room of the hotel, while the poor ladies had each a plate put into their hands, as they pensively promenaded the ballroom during their absence; and shortly afterwards servants appeared, bearing trays of sweetmeats, cakes, and creams.