Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841Various
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
Various
English wit and humor -- Periodicals
We shall not attempt to particularise the arrivals, as they were precisely
the same set as our readers have invariably met at routs of the second
class for these last five years. There was the young gentleman in an
orange waistcoat, bilious complexion, and hair _a la Petrarch_, only
gingered; and so also were the two Misses ----, in blue gauze, looped up
with coral,--and that fair-haired girl who "detethted therry," and those
black eyes, whose lustrous beauty made such havoc among the untenanted
hearts of the youthful beaux;--but, reader, you _must_ know the set that
_must_ have visited the Applebites.
All went "merry as a marriage bell," and we feel that we cannot do better
than assist future commentators by giving a minute analysis of a word
which so frequently occurs in the fashionable literature of the present
day that doubtlessly in after time many anxious inquiries and curious
conjectures would be occasioned, but for the service we are about to
confer on posterity (for the pages of PUNCH are immortal) by a description
of
A QUADRILLE:
which is a dance particularly fashionable in the nineteenth century. In
order to render our details perspicuous and lucid, we will suppose--
1.--A gentleman in tight pantaloons and a tip.
2.--Ditto in loose ditto, and a camellia japonica in the
button-hole of his coat.
3.--Ditto in a crimson waistcoat, and a pendulating eye-glass.
4.--Ditto in violent wristbands, and an alarming eruption of buttons.
ALSO,
1.--A young lady in pink-gauze and freckles.
2.--Ditto in book-muslin and marabouts.
3.--Ditto with blonde and a slight cast.
4.--Ditto in her 24th year, and black satin.
The four gentlemen present themselves to the four ladies, and having
smirked and "begged the honour," the four pairs take their station in the
room in the following order:
The tip and the
freckles.
The camelia japonica, The crimson waistcoat,
and the and the
marabouts. slight cast.
The violent wristbands
and the
black satin.
During eight bars of music, tip, crimson, camellia, and wristbands, bow to
freckles, slight cast, marabouts, and black satin, who curtsey in return,
and then commence
LA PANTALON,
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