hunting-balls

Updated: May 23, 2025

Sir Philip Jocelyn thought that he should marry "some of these days," and in the meantime troubled himself very little about the pretty daughters of country gentlemen whom he met now and again at races, and archery-meetings, and flower-shows, and dinner-parties, and hunting-balls, in the queer old town-hall at Shorncliffe.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Henry Dunbar : A Novel