CHAPTER XXVI.

New Era in New York Society--Extravagance of Living--Grand Fancy Dress

Ball in Fifth Avenue--I go as the Lover of Margaret de Valois--A great

Journalist at Newport--A British Officer rides into a Club House--The

great Journalist’s masked Ball--A mysterious Blue Domino--Breakfast at

Southwick’s Grove to the Duke of Beaufort--Picnic given President

Arthur--His hearty Enjoyment of it--Governor Morgan misjudges my “Open

Air Lunches”--The Pleasure of Country Frolics, 349