CHAPTER XIII.

Cost of Cotillion Dinners--My delicate Position--The Début of a

Beautiful Blonde--Lord Roseberry’s mot--We have better Madeira than

England--I am dubbed “The Autocrat of Drawing-rooms”--A Grand Domino

Ball--Cruel Tricks of a fair Mask--An English Lady’s Maid takes a

Bath--The first Cotillion Dinners given at Newport--Out-of-Door

Feasting--Dancing in the Barn, 165