Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Friendship's Offering: Christmas, New Year and Birthday Present, for 1849
The great saloon, with its pillars of porphyry and rosy goddesses in fresco, was deluged in a blaze of light, common (as the attache at your elbow will tell you, lady!) to but two saloons in the polite known world - this, m which is laid the scene of our story.
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