The things we do!

Gandish, Mrs. Gandish, and the four
Miss Gandishes in scarlet robes, were constant attendants at the
Colonel's soirees.
"I delight, sir, in the 'ospitality of my distinguished military friend,"
Mr. Gandish would say. "The harmy has always been my passion.--I served
in the Soho Volunteers three years myself, till the conclusion of the
war, sir, till the conclusion of the war."
It was a great sight to see Mr. Frederick Bayham engaged in the waltz or
the quadrille with some of the elderly houris at the Colonel's parties.
F. B., like a good-natured F. B. as he was, always chose the plainest
women as partners, and entertained them with profound compliments and
sumptuous conversation. The Colonel likewise danced quadrilles with the
utmost gravity. Waltzing had been invented long since his time: but he
practised quadrilles when they first came in, about 1817, in Calcutta. To
see him leading up a little old maid, and bowing to her when the dance
was ended, and performing cavalier seul with stately simplicity, was a
sight indeed to remember.


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