51 They take her to the Grand Assembly:* And there the crush, the glare, the heat, The music’s roar, the ballroom trembling, The whirling flash of pairs of feet, The beauties in their filmy dresses, The swarming gallery throng that presses, The host of girls on marriage hunts— Assault the senses all at once. Here practised dandies bow and slither To show their gall… and waistcoats too, With negligent lorgnettes in view. Hussars on leave come racing hither To strut their stuff and thunder by, To dazzle, conquer … and to fly.
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