masked-balls

Updated: May 25, 2025

There trifling and imbecile creatures, who, not satisfied with the appellation woman, call themselves ladies, and expend thousands on their routs, masked-balls, whipped creams, and other froth and frippery, procured from the achs and pains and blood and bones of the poor! Wretches more bent and weighed down by misery than even I was! 'What need I to recall such pictures to your imaginations?

Thomas Holcroft - The Adventures of Hugh Trevor