Some were clad in coat and pantaloons only; others had forgotten the
coat, and exposed brawny and hirsute torsos to the October sun, and
swelling muscles worthy of Athletes.
Others, again, were almost _sans-culottes_, only a remnant being left,
which made the deficiency more tantalizingly painful to the eye.
Let the reader, then, imagine this spectacle of torn garments,
tattered hats, and brandished clubs--not forgetting the tatterdemalion
negro children, who ran after the crowd in the last state of
dilapidation, and he will have some slight idea of the masquerade,
over which rode, in supreme majesty, the trunk-nosed Mr. O'Brallaghan.
We need not repeat the observations of the ladies; or detail their
exclamations, fears, and general behavior. Like all members of the
fair sex, they made a virtue of necessity, and assumed the most
winning expressions of timidity and reliance on their cavaliers; and
even Miss Lavinia reposed upon a settee, and exclaimed that it was
dreadful--very dreadful and terrifying.
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