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would have called "slow," found themselves affected with alarming fits of dejection, accompanied by a distressing tingling in the ears, and very burning cheeks.

Comic sings will occasionally produce these symptoms!

The music was succeeded by games on the lawn, that would have been called romping twenty years ago—more dancing, and a grand display of fireworks, and terminated in a magnificent supper, and much champagne; and the guests departed impressed with the idea that the Baron's immense wealth was spent with equal liberality.