text:  A parade of the Guards by which the world was tempted into rising at ten o'clock; a _dejeuner a la fourchette_ by which it was surprised into _dining_ at three (_more majorum;_) an opera by which those whose hour for going out is eleven were forced into their carriages at nine; a concert at Hanover Square finished by a ball and supper at Buckingham palace;--all were among those brilliant perversions of the habits of high life which make the week one brilliant tumult; but which never could have been revolutionized but by an emperor in the flower of his age