Midnight
I have never seen any thing like them ; the furniture of both is of ebony ; but the most curious part of the affair is , that they are evidently designed for a lady . Imagine your Richard sleeping under a coverlet of real Brussels lace ! Every thing in the house , however , is magnificent , or was so once , before it was damaged by barbarous revel . Such orgies as I have witnessed to-night would seem incredible , if I wrote them ; the _ Modern Midnight Entertainment _ of old Hogarth will supply you with the _ dramatis personae _ ; but the splendor of the surroundings immensely heightened the effect of it all . Carew and his friends might have sat for Alaric and his Goths carousing amidst the wreck of the art treasures of Rome . Nothing that he has affords him any satisfaction ; though , if it is of great cost , Chaplain Whymper tells me that he derives a momentary pleasure from its willful damage . This man and one other are the only persons of intelligence about Carew ; but even they have no influence with him that can be depended on .