Transcription:

Dresses and Doings

girl to whom I introduced [Charles] Damoreau, who turned up about 12 and who forthwith commenced a heavy flirtation with her, she being, as he said, “the only straw he had to cling to.” Pocahontas: Miss Burtis, sister of our landlady [Susan Boley]’s daughter’s husband, bright-eyed, very fair skinned, dark-haired, rather sharp looking; general effect pretty. Zouave Colonel in a rich dress with a good deal of lace on the sleeves; rather an ugly man; I believe an acquaintance of Kettle’s. A stage Irishman. A Butcher. Mrs. Bowley’s veritable butcher. A Maid of Athens. A queer Pierrot, wearing a funnel with an onion on the top of it. Mrs. Schenck, a la Hungarienne. Gesler, in a helmet and half-armor — the good-humored German who has been lying with a rupture, on a sick-bed for the last three weeks. A Nigger Waiter. Folly. Red-Riding-Hood, subsequently a Swiss Broom-Girl. A French Peasant. An Ancient Lady, afterwards Mrs. Martha Washington. Sir Harcourt Courtly and his servant Cool. A Gondolier. A Fairy with wand and star. A Friar. Bancker as a Spanish Contrabandero or Neapolitan Lazzaroni, looked well. A Sailor. These and others, doubtless more than I observed, constituted our masquers. I