CHAPTER XVI.

Grand Banquet to a Bride elect--She sat in a bank of Roses with

Fountains playing around her--An Anecdote of Almack’s--The way the Duke

of Wellington introduced my Father and Dominick Lynch to the Swells--I

determine to have an American Almack’s--The way the “Patriarchs’” was

founded--The One-man Power Abolished--Success of the Organization, 207