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trancing waltz I have ever lieardj and which rejoices 

 in the delightful and appropriate title of " Sweet- 

 hearts/' Among this numerous assemblage were 

 Count Kalman Almasy and the Countess Almksy, the 

 Rev. T. B. W. and Mrs. Boughton Leigh, Mr. and 

 Miss Caldecott, Colonel Caldecott, Captain J. A. 

 Caldecott, Miss Alston, Miss Belcher, Mr. H. C. 

 Maclaine, R.A. ; the Hon. Lady Inglis, Mr. A. M. 

 and Miss Inglis, Mr. Dyson Moore' and Miss Moore, 

 Major and Mrs. Inglefield, Captain and Mrs. Radford, 

 Mr. Guy Scott, Captain Hunter, Mr. Steel, Captain 

 and Mrs. Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Morrice of Catthorpe 

 Towers, the Misses Morice, Captain and Mrs. Levett, 

 Captain Osborne, Mr. Hamilton Osborne, Mr. Lind- 

 sell, Mr. Entwistle, Mr. Allesley and Mrs. Boughton 

 Leigh, Mrs. and Miss Elmhirst, Captain Elm hirst. 

 Miss Elmhirst, Sir Joseph Spearman ; Mr. Cecil 

 Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Edgell, Mrs. Ernest 

 Chaplin, Mrs. Beech, Mr. Rowland Beech, Mr. Charles 

 and Mr. Henry Beech, Miss Rose, Lady and the 

 Misses Hulse, Colonel Wilkinson, etc. etc. etc. Well, 

 balls are very delightful things I must admit, but it is 

 rather trying when one has fallen into the " sere and 

 yellow leaf '^ to be compelled to look on instead of 

 joining in the pleasures of the evening, and one is in- 

 clined to sigh for " The merry days when we were 

 young, when youth's gay fancy threw o'er life its 

 glowing hue." But, bah ! what's the use of crying 

 over spilled milk, better to console oneself with those 

 beautiful lines from Horace : — 



" Be foul or fair, or rain or shine, 

 The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate are mine ; 

 Not Jove himself upon the past has power, 

 What has been — has been — and I have had my hour." 



