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Lord Vincent met me in the hall . `` Delighted to see you , '' said he , `` I have just been to -- , -LRB- the nearest town -RRB- in order to discover what sort of savages abide there . Great preparations for a ball -- all the tallow candles in the town are bespoken -- and I heard a most uncivilized fiddle , '' ` Twang short and sharp , like the shrill swallow 's cry . ' '' The one milliner 's shop was full of fat squiresses , buying muslin ammunition , to make the ball go off ; and the attics , even at four o'clock , were thronged with rubicund damsels , who were already , as Shakspeare says of waves in a storm , '' ` Curling their monstrous heads . ' '' Jusqu'au revoir le ciel vous tienne tous en joie . -- Moliere . I was now pretty well tried of Garrett Park .