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¬looking above, below, and all around me, I was delighted to see such an immense number of well-dressed happy people, of various classes and conditions ; but all of them obvious parts of a well-adjusted harmonious whole. There was no tumult or disorder, which I was told almost never took place but when something was radi- cally wrong. As the play advanced, I became more sensible that the golden mean of magni- tude had been trangressed in the formation of the house, because, though my imperfect ac- quaintance with the language rendered it diffi- cult to take a just measure of such a defect, yet I was convinced that the more distant parts of the audience M^ere often disappointed, by their repeated calls for that degree of silence which in an extensive theatre it is impossible to command. — The scenes were beautifully painted, equal in effect to our finest panoramas, the dresses rich and appropriate, and the performers, as far as I could form a judgment of their ta- lents, were highly accomplished in their art, ¬but ¬
