And that quiet man, whose near-sightedness obliged him to wear glasses,
and whose very soul was penetrated with a joke, if you could judge from
the internal convulsions and the mounting of the red blood to his face
at every good one--"Grandpa" (Treadwell) so different from his light-
complexioned wife, who smiled all over her face and indulged in a merry
laugh so easily. And John (Orvis) was there--surnamed "the Almighty"--
for certain eyes projected their glances on him, which was not
unpleasing to his senses. And Chiswell, the man who desired to be chief
of the Amusement Group, was there, of course; and Miss Ripley, "her
perpendicular Majesty," came to look on because she enjoyed doing so;
and the "Mistress of the Revels" (Miss Russell) was looking after her
young nieces, the Misses Foord, who, with all the other young misses,
were there. And stout "Old Solidarity" (Eaton) was there, and "Monday
(Munday) the tailor's wife"; Jean (Pallisse) with his "Madame," "Homer
the Sweet" (Doucet), "Chrysalis" (Christopher List), "Chorles" and
Stella (Salisbury), John and Mary (Sawyer), and all the titled nobility
of the place; with Edgar and Martin, Harry and George, Dan and Willard,
John and Charles--all lads of an age to drink deep of the fountain of
life and pleasure.
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