Waltz--Waltz alone both legs and arms demands,
Liberal of feet and lavish of her hands.
Hands, which may freely range in public sight,
Where ne'er before--but--pray 'put out the light.'"
A coruscation of bright eyes and beauteous forms shed a halo of delight
around, that must have warmed the cyprian's ball ~41~~the heart and
animated the pulse of the coldest stoic in Christendom. The specious M.
C, General O'M***a, introduced us in his best style, quickly bowing each
of us into the graces of some fascinating fair, than whom
"Not Cleopatra on her galley's deck
Display'd so much of leg or more of neck."
For myself, I had the special honour of being engaged to the Honourable
Mrs. J-- C******y, otherwise Padden, who, whatever may have been her
origin,{2} has certainly acquired the ease and elegance of
2 Mrs. Padden is said to have been originally a servant-maid
at Plymouth, and the victim of early seduction. When very
young,
coming to London with her infant in search of a Captain D----- in the
D--------e Militia, her first but inconstant swain, chance threw her
in her abandoned condition into the way of Colonel C-----, who was much
interested by her tale of sorrow, and more perhaps by her then lovely
person, to obtain possession of which, he took a house for her,
furnished it, and (as the phrase is) _set her up_.
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