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After the last chorus which begins as though the gathering were a Scotch one and we were going to have "Auld Lang Syne" there is a final "grand dance," one of the composer's vigorous and elaborately worked displays on a ground-bass. Poor Grabut's fall was most lamentable. He most certainly did; and the case ought to be a warning to humbugs not to set their faith in princes.
The rag-time music, over a sort of ground-bass of syncopated tom-tom, surged through the curtains like a tide of the sea of Aphrodite, and bathed everyone at the supper-tables in a mysterious aphrodisiacal fluid. The waiters alone were insensible to its influence. They moved to and fro with the impassivity and disdain of eunuchs separated for ever from the world's temptations.
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