text:  In the mean time the piano is joined by a harp in musical solicitation of the company to join the ladies in the drawing-room; they do so looking flushed and plethoric sink into easy-chairs sip tea the younger beaux turning over with miss Books of Beauty and Keepsakes: at eleven coaches and cabs arrive you take formal leave expressing with a melancholy countenance your sense of the delightfulness of the evening get to your chambers and forget over a broiled bone and a bottle of Dublin stout in what an infernal prosy thankless stone-faced yellow-waistcoated unsympathizing unintellectual selfish stupid set you have been condemned to pass an afternoon assisting at the ostentatious exhibition of vulgar wealth where gulosity has been unrelieved by one single sally of wit humour good-nature humanity or charity; where you come without a welcome and leave without a friend