Excerpt from The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Vol. 2: 1837 Mrs. Brandyball, whose whole aim and object appeared to be the making everybody round her pleased with themselves. As the readiest mode of making everybody present pleased with her, began her course of experiments in that way by eulogizing, in the best set terms, the gal lant officer now absent, as one of the most interesting of his sex. 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.