Then there was an Italian bravo with a long beard.

Two old gentlemen, who ought to have been wiser, were fools enough to come in splendid Turkish costumes at which everybody laughed.

The fancy-dresses were worn almost exclusively by the young people.

The ladies for the most part contented themselves with a few flowers and ribands oddly disposed.

There was, however, a beautiful Mary Queen of Scots, who looked as well as dressed the character perfectly; an angel of a Jewess in a Highland plaid; and an old woman, or rather a woman,--for through her disguise it was impossible to ascertain her age,--in the absurdest costume of the last century.