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| Even at a small party, the company was a pleasure to behold; the richly varied hues of the assembly in a church or theatre are said to have more than once proved too distracting for our greatest teachers and actors; but most ravishing of all is said to have been the unspeakable magnificence of a military review. In truth, I don't fancy that there had ever been much danger of that, but certainly the experience was noisy and particularly distracting - and yet it is the memory of a very quiet silence that survives. She ran around to the back yard of the palace and soon found the chicken house, being guided to it by a loud cackling and crowing and a distracting hubbub of sounds such as chickens make when they are excited. |
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