The effect was seen in the cheeks of matrons and damsels where they were not daubed.

It added brilliancy to many an eye--it gave a piquancy and freedom to talk, greatly appreciated by the gallants.

As for the dancing, in that crowded room owing to the space monopolised by the prodigious hoops and the general exhilaration, the stately minuet and sarabande were out of the question, and the jig and country dance were much more in favour.
In a side room cards and dicing were going on and the gamblers were not to be drawn from the tables while they had money in their pockets.

Most of them were women, and when the grey dawn came stealing between the curtains of the long narrow windows, overpowering the candlelight and turning it of a pale sickly yellow, the players were still seated, with feverish hands, haggard faces and hawk-like eyes, pursuing their race after excitement.

A silence had come over the party.