latter had a certain "_je ne sais quoi_" about her that was taking, her hair was too black, and her complexion too pale, for beauty; and that the loveliness of the former defied criticism--an unwilling confession, which rendered their first triumph nugatory; so that the waltzers afforded a very seasonable diversion. Nothing could be fancied more laughable than the undextrous twirling of the quartet; and few things are more worthy, in every respect, to be the subject of that spirit of ridicule which so unfortunately pervades every society, than this anti-Anglican dance. Mrs. Temple whispered to Adelaide, "So ill the motion with the music suits; "Thus Orpheus play'd, and like them danc'd the brutes." How could Mrs. Temple be so ill bred as to whisper?--The whole thing is '_mauvais ton_' no doubt some decorous belle now exclaims. Gentle reader, if thou hast never sacrificed thy friend or thy love of the _exact_ truth to a joke, thou hast a right to vent thine indignation against this breach of _etiquette_. When thine ire is exhausted, proceed to read, and thou wilt find that the cause of thine indignation is at an end.--Supper was at length announced; the company were conducted into rooms laid out in the same style of ornamental profusion as those they had already visited. After supper, dancing was resumed with increased ardour, and continued to an early hour. When the company separated, they exchanged the glare of candles for the light of the sun; and the sound of the harp, tabret, and all manner of musical instruments, for the song of birds and the whistling of the husbandman. CHAPTER XV. Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw.-- POPE.