# The Contrast

Author: Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826; McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/554

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Contrast+Tyler&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

No, I don't say so. It may be very becoming to saunter round the house of a rainy day; to visit my grand-mamma, or to go to Quakers' meeting: but to swim in a minuet, with the eyes of fifty well-dressed beaux upon me, to trip it in the Mall, or walk on the battery, give me the luxurious, jaunty, flowing, bell-hoop. It would have delighted you to have seen me the last evening, my charming girl! I was dangling o'er the battery with Billy Dimple; a knot of young fellows were upon the platform; as I passed them I faultered with one of the most bewitching false steps you ever saw, and then recovered myself with such a pretty confusion, flirting my hoop to discover a jet black shoe and brillian...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-contrast-554/chapters/8/index.md)