Her beauty won the hearts of the gentlemen, and her correct deportment the good opinions of the ladies.
Shortly afterwards the dinner-bell rang, and the company, with a great clatter and still greater good-humour, occupied the tables, from a description of which I conscientiously abstain--firstly and lastly because such things as dinner-tables are only diverting _in natura_, but infinitely tiresome in books.

There was all the wealth, pomp, splendour and profusion that the occasion and the reputation of the Nabob demanded; there was everything procurable for man's enjoyment, from the native products of Hungarian cookery to the masterly creations of French gastronomic art, and of wines every sort imaginable.

The dinner lasted far into the night, and towards the end of it the company began to grow uproarious.

The great patriot, as usual, related his lubricous, equivocal anecdotes without troubling himself very much as to whether ladies were present or not.

He was wont to say _Castis sunt omnia casta_, "To the pure all things are pure," and whoever blushed had, no doubt, a good reason for blushing, and was therefore corrupt enough already.