Roxana (1724) [ Practices ]
… my favour, in order to introduce what followed. The conversation we had was generally courtly but civil. At length some gentlemen proposed to play, and made what they called a party. This, it seems, was a contrivance of one of my female … make an appointment for the next night. I was as gay and as well pleased as any of them, and one night told one of the gentlemen, my Lord — — that seeing they were doing me the honour of diverting themselves at my apartment, and desired to … give them a little ball the next day if they pleased, which they accepted very willingly. Accordingly in the evening the gentlemen began to come, where I let them see that I understood very well what such things meant. I had a large …
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