Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: A Madeira Party] [Illustration: Title Page] _A Madeira Party_ _By_ _S. Weir Mitchell_ _M.D., LL.D. (Harv.)_ _Author of "Characteristics" "When all the Woods are Green" Etc., Etc._ _New York The Century Co. 1895_ Copyright, 1895, By THE CENTURY CO. THE DEVINNE PRESS. *CONTENTS* A MADEIRA PARTY "A LITTLE MORE BURGUNDY" [Illustration: Bowl] *A MADEIRA PARTY* Sometime early in the second quarter of the century, in the City of Penn, and in what was then known as Delaware-Fourth street, soon after dusk in the evening, occurred the unimportant events of which I shall speak. The room was paneled in white three feet up from the floor, and above this a fox-hunt was repeated in lively colors on every square of the paper which covered the walls. Great hickory logs, ablaze on the deep hearth, cast rosy light on a mantelpiece, in the style of the Directory, pretty with Cupids in relief dragging chariots through a tangle of roses. A similar pattern on the ceiling resembled what a visitor to the Zoölogical Gardens may see to-day in the small yellow house called "Solitude," where Mr. Penn is said to have been agreeably naughty and by no means solitary.