Dance and song mingle in successive round.
Youth and age alike join in the fairy scene.

Arch glances pass from courtly cavaliers to beautiful maidens who "blush at the praise of their own loveliness." The rustle of silken draperies sound to the ear as unseen music at the hand of the warbling genii.

Robes of spotless purity and gossamer texture flit around, keeping time to the merry ringing silvery peals of girlish merriment.

Such are the scenes that greet the eye and ear in roaming amid the gay throng at Government House, Fredericton, on the New Year's Eve of 1828.
It would be a difficult task to make particular mention of the aristocratic matrons; still it would be a great injustice to pass over a matter of so much importance.

In fact, by some, the married ladies bore off the palm for beauty and intelligence.