Indeed, save to a new comer, no invitations to foreigners were issued, it being understood that all who had been there once were welcome ever after.

The Pitti balls were not by any means concluded by, but rather divided into two, by a very handsome and abundant supper, at which, to tell tales out of school (but then the offenders have no doubt mostly gone over to the majority), the guests used to behave abominably.

The English would seize the plates of _bonbons_ and empty the contents bodily into their coat pockets.

The ladies would do the same with their pocket-handkerchiefs.

But the Duke's liege subjects carried on their depredations on a far bolder scale.