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Although there was no cash in silken fob or broidered pocket, theElect denied themselves no luxury. Bejewelled Fashion was sumptuouslyclad: my ladies quarrelled and intrigued, danced and gambled--my lordsslept off the fumes of wine, and mopped the wounds begot of midnightbrawl; then drank and fought again.
Money? No credit even. Trade was at a standstill, yet the court wasuproariously gay.
Money and credit--sinews of pleasure as well as business--havingflitted from lively Paris, you might suppose that the wheels ofSociety would cease to turn--that the flower-decked car of gildedJuggernaut would come creeping to a standstill. Not yet. Impelled bythe impulse of its own velocity, it continued to crush on awhile.Those who k