Excerpt from Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English Agitated by these misgivings, she wonders to see her Chaperon take her place deliberately in the card-room, as though there were no such things as quadrilles and waltzes in the world - as though people came to a ball to shuffle their cards instead of their feet. She is so placed, however, as to command a view Of the dancing room; and, by dint Of edging forwards her seat (to the indignation Of a corpulent gentlewoman, into whose knees she carelessly inserts the angular corner Of the chair she is coaxing, edgeways, to the front rank), manages to place herself within view Of the young gentlemen lounging up and down, in order to pass in review the belles Of the evening, for the election Of partners. One or other of them, she fancies, cannot fail to be struck by the elegance Of her costume and manners. But her great difficulty consists in pre serving the downcast air, insisted upon by her Chaperon as indis pensable to the character Of a Debutante, and keeping sufficiently on the alert to ascertain whether anything. Eligible in the way of partnership is approaching. 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.