White Sulphur papers; or, Life at the springs of Western Virginia

AMUSEMENTS, 29
acceptable after six hours abstinence,
you have been down to the spring.
particulary if
There are twelve tables, each large enough for
fifty persons or more, on a squeeze, and all the plates
being labelled, there is no confusion in coming to
dinner about finding your place. There is no necessity
for being in a hurry, or getting into a passion—a
little patience, and you will not fail to be
satisfied.
The desert is abundant and very good, and but
for the hurry and flurry of the servants, you get
through this meal very good humouredly.
Little or
no wine is drunk at dinner, one of the beneficial results
of the water, and a very conclusive one.
After
dinner, the ladies generally repair to the drawingroom,
where an hour or two is wliiled av/ay in
conversation and music:
there are always a great
many ladies here who perform well, and th's is one
of the pleasantest hours of the day. Many who like
the Spanish fasliion, sleep an hour or two, after dinner—then
at five o'clock, the equipages are brought
out for those who may have them and like an evening
drive, on the sweet spring road, or to the Greenbriar
bridge. A third general visiting is made to
the spring
during the evening, and from then until
tea time, and till twilight, the whole grounds are interspersed
with
company, promenading, laughing,
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