The Floor
Was Covered With Mats, In The Middle Of Which Are Four High Black
Pillars; Within Which There Are Neat Fire-Places For Preparing Tea,
Coffee And Punch; And All Around, Also, There Are Placed Tables, Set
Out With All Kinds Of Refreshments.
Within these four pillars, in a
kind of magic rotundo, all the beau-monde of London move perpetually
round and round.
I at first mixed with this immense concourse of people, of all
sexes, ages, countries, and characters; and I must confess, that the
incessant change of faces, the far greater number of which were
strikingly beautiful, together with the illumination, the extent and
majestic splendour of the place, with the continued sound of the
music, makes an inconceivably delightful impression on the
imagination; and I take the liberty to add, that, on seeing it now
for the first time, I felt pretty nearly the same sensations that I
remember to have felt when, in early youth, I first read the Fairy
Tales.
Being, however, at length tired of the crowd, and being tired also
with always moving round and round in a circle, I sat myself down in
one of the boxes, in order to take some refreshment, and was now
contemplating at my ease this prodigious collection and crowd of a
happy, cheerful world, who were here enjoying themselves devoid of
care, when a waiter very civilly asked me what refreshments I wished
to have, and in a few moments returned with what I asked for.
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