SIDNEY ROMELEE.

A TALE OF NEW ENGLAND.

Printed by J. Darling, Leadenhall-Street, London.

RE-PRINTED FOR A. K. NEWMAN AND CO.

SIDNEY ROMELEE.

CHAPTER I.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet,
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
CHILDE HAROLD.

THE ball which our visitors were invited to attend, was given at the public hotel, the room appropriated to this amusement being always designated "the hall." This hall, which was a spacious room, in the estimation of the company, had been splendidly fitted up for the occasion. Branches of pine, and spruce, and festoons, formed of a species

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