He said he was half disposed to set his bull-dog at me, but he didn't; on the contrary, he at once bid me exchange my bachelor's quarters for the two chambers I at present occupy, and which remind me of the _Arabian Nights_.

I have never seen any thing like them; the furniture of both is of ebony; but the most curious part of the affair is, that they are evidently designed for a lady.

Imagine your Richard sleeping under a coverlet of real Brussels lace! Every thing in the house, however, is magnificent, or was so once, before it was damaged by barbarous revel.

Such orgies as I have witnessed to-night would seem incredible, if I wrote them; the _Modern Midnight Entertainment_ of old Hogarth will supply you with the _dramatis personae_; but the splendor of the surroundings immensely heightened the effect of it all.

Carew and his friends might have sat for Alaric and his Goths carousing amidst the wreck of the art treasures of Rome.