Erpingham House was not large, but it was well adapted to the description of assembly its beautiful owner had invited.
Statues, busts, pictures, books, scattered or arranged about the apartments, furnished matter for intellectual conversation, or gave at least an intellectual air to the meeting.
About a hundred persons were present.

They were selected from the most distinguished ornaments of the time.

Musicians, painters, authors, orators, fine gentlemen, dukes, princes, and beauties.

One thing, however, was imperatively necessary in order to admit them--the profession of liberal opinions.

No Tory, however wise, eloquent or beautiful, could, that evening, have obtained the sesame to those apartments.
Constance never seemed more lovely, and never before was she so winning.
The coldness and the arrogance of her manner had wholly vanished.