CHAPTER XVI.

Grand Banquet to a Bride elect--She sat in a bank of Roses with Fountains playing around her--An Anecdote of Almack’s--The way the Duke of Wellington introduced my Father and Dominick Lynch to the Swells--I determine to have an American Almack’s--The way the “Patriarchs’” was founded--The One-man Power Abolished--Success of the Organization, 207