Excerpt from Blanche Ellerslie's Ending On these premises it would seem a fact not less worthy of record than many set down in the Annual Register, that the first ball given at Nithsdale House, after the bride was brought home, was pronounced a thorough success by each and every one who assisted thereat, from the royal Personage who, with infinite grace and agility, opened the first quadrille, down to the linkman without, who, with a hoarse and unctuous blessing, sped the very last of the parting guests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.