with the gout and Lady Wood like a Ghoul....

More bad roads to Fryston where we found, including ourselves, a party
of seventeen, three less than was expected, among others Lord and Lady
Galway [8] and two Miss Moncktons.

The noise, riot and confusion of the house I shall not attempt to
describe.


On the following day they drove from Fryston to a ball in the
neighbourhood, of which Mrs Stanhope relates:--


We arrived about nine. The ball-room was beautiful. It was hung with
white Calico, with a wreath of evergreens round the top of the room
and festoons from it of the same all round; the only fault was _the
pure white of the Calico made all the ladies look dirty_. There
were 160 or 170 people, many I did not know, many Men, but where the
majority came from I cannot pretend to say; Darlingtons, Ramsdens,
Cookes, Taylors, etc, and our large party the chief from the
neighbourhood.

The dances were too long and too crowded, which made it not pleasant
for the dancers, but it was a fine ball, upon the whole, but much
inferior in every respect to Kippax.

Your sisters danced a good deal, and both of them with a Bond Street
lounger whose name was Carey. I believed he was rouged. He desired his
hostess to introduce him to a partner, stipulating--"_But let her be