"Who is that dashing looking brunette in the turban, that is
just entering the room?" inquired Transit, who appeared to be mightily
taken with the fair incognita. "That lady, with the mahogany skin and
_piquant_ appearance, is the favourite mistress of the poor Duke of
Ma**b****h," responded Crony, "and is no other than ~43~~the celebrated
Poll-----Pshaw! everybody has heard of the Queen of the Amazons, a title
given to the lady, in honour, as I suppose, of his grace's fighting
ancestor. Poll is said to be a great voluptuary; but at any rate she
cannot be very extravagant, that is, if she draws all her resources from
her protector's present purse. Do you observe that _jolie dame_ yonder
sitting under the orchestra? that is the well-known Nelly Mansell,
of Crawford-street, called the _old Pomona_, from the richness of her
_first fruits_. Nelly has managed her affairs with no trifling share
of prudence, and although in the decline of life, she is by no means
in declining circumstances. H**re the banker married her niece, and the
aunt's cash-account is said to be a very comfortable expectancy.
The _elegante_ waltzing so _luxuriantly_ with H------ B------ H------ is
the lovely Emma Richardson, sometime since called Standish or Davison, a
Cytherean of the very first order, and the sister planet to the equally
charming Ellen Hanbury, otherwise Bl-----g-----ve, constellations of the
utmost brilliancy, very uncertain in their appearance, and equally so,
if report speaks truth, in their attachment to either Jupiter, Mars,
Vulcan, or Apollo.
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