The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 22: what you’re looking at

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TIE MYSTERIES OF TRE COURT. 9 eC < VENELIA TRELAWSY, and vhis circumstance, together with the known faet that he was a favourite with the Prince, was the canse of his being one of the “select few” on the present occasion. The reader is now thoroughly introduced to the party of six to whom we alluded at the commence- ment of this ohapter. The banquet to which they cate down, was composed of the choicest delicacies that ooald possibly tempt the appetite or that wealth could procure. But then Lord Leveson cept a French oook, at a salary of a thousand | six guineas a-year: and he had imported a native Kast Indian expressly for the purpose of dreasing curries and making mulligitawney. His lordship, moreover, paid five hundred a-year to his “ wine- taster ”—an individual whose sole occupation was te select the produce of the finest vintages for his moble master’s cellar. Then, at his lordship’s ecuntry-seats there were pineries and vinerics, wod bot-hovses of all Galeiptieed sand. in be in his os lordships parm were were fat bucks—and his lordship’s immefse wealth moreover commanded the choicest produce of all the markets. It would therefore have been astonishing indeed if the ban- quet were not pre-eminently satisfactory, both as regarded the choice dainties and tie exquiaite wives, Let us suppose the cloth removed—the dessert placed upon the table—the domestics retired—and the wine ciroulating freely: we toay now listen to the conversation which is passing amongst the scated at the board. “fam indebted to you, Leveson,” said the Prince Regent, as he sipped his wine, “for the most agreeable entertainment I have experienced for some months past. This is really a new pleasure; and upon my word, in these days of monotony and sameness, I can well understand the feeling which induced the Persian monarch to offer a rp- ward for some origiual and unexplored enjoyment.” “Does your Ruyal Uighness mean that Loudoo eeeeeeeeSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSFSFSFMSFMHFMe comliclbooks.com