While I was suffering under J--, a smart impudent-looking young dog, dressed like a sailor in a blue jacket and check shirt, marched up, and asked a Jewish-looking damsel near me to dance with him.

I thought that I had seen the fellow before; and, after a little looking, I perceived that it was Charles; and most knowingly, I assure you, did he perform a quadrille with Miss Hilpah Manasses.
If I were to tell you all that I saw I should exceed my ounce.

There was Martin the painter, and Proctor, alias Barry Cornwall, the poet or poetaster.

I did not see one Peer, or one star, except a foreign order or two, which I generally consider as an intimation to look to my pockets.

A German knight is a dangerous neighbour in a crowd.