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 ¬ CHAPTER V. ¬The Author is introduced into the private Societies of the Capital. ¬I was now invited to a private dinner of only twelve covers, and remained during the evening, with a party more numerous though select. — The company at both were persons of distinction, most of whom I recognised as having been in the mobs I had passed through, and from whom, on that account, I expected also but little that could amuse me ; — but although much is lost when a foreigner can only collect what passes through interpretation, yet the conversation was most interesting and delightful. — Indeed, the whole scene, in perfect good manners, in vivacity, and useful information, surpassed what I had ever seen in Europe, many parts of which I had visited in my youth ; I can bring of course but a small part of it before the reader. ¬The conversation, as might be expected, took ¬its ¬