He
guessed at once that its appearance there was connected with the fancy
ball which was now filling London with its fame, and he examined it with
some closeness. "Lady Kitty will make a stir in it--no doubt of that!"
he said to himself, as he turned away. "She has the keenest
flair of
them all for what produces an effect. None of the others can touch
her--Mrs. Alcot--none of them!"
He was thinking of the other members of a certain group, at that time
well known in London society--a group characterized chiefly by the
beauty, extravagance, and audacity of the women belonging to it. It was
by no means a group of mere fashionables. It contained a large amount of
ability and accomplishment; some men of aristocratic family, who were
also men of high character, with great futures before them; some persons
from the literary or artistic world, who possessed, besides their
literary or artistic gifts, a certain art of agreeable living, and some
few others--especially young girls--admitted generally for some peculiar
quality of beauty or manner outside the ordinary canons. Money was
really presupposed by the group as a group.
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