text: " Their amusements among themselves are inexpensive almost to meanness: the subscription to Almacks that paradise of exclusives and envy of the excluded amounts to not more than half a-guinea a ball if so much: a stall at the opera costs a young man of fashion for the season forty fifty or sixty pounds according to position: for this he is entitled to an ivory ticket which when he does not feel inclined to go himself he can transfer for the evening to another