[2] The pit in those days was still a fashionable part of the house, being where the stalls are now.
[3] “Mrs. Brookfield and her Circle.”
[4] A slang term, probably meaning to talk pompously or trivially.
[5] The Duke of Wellington had no official post at the time.
[6] The Bradshaw incident and others.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.
3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.