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 ¬The carriage was now called up, and, after passing through a similar scene of confusion, which was, however, far less alarming when I was acquainted with the causes, we arrived in the street near the house we were going to, when our coachman being thrown off his box after all his victories, from the accident of a wheel being carried away, we proceeded on foot with lights carried before us, a ceremony which cost me about fifty pounds of our money, as my clothes were entirely ruined with a mix- ture of wax and grease from the lower stars of the earth, which, in Swaloal, light up the re- sorts of fashion, when the stars of heaven are gone to bed. ¬At last we entered the proclaimed mansion, more magnificent and crowded than the first ; but how will the reader ever recover from his astonishment, when I inform him, upon my most sacred word of honour, and as I hope to dance at the next ball at Almack's, that stand- ing in just such another door-way as the iden- tical ¬