The Play in the Shop—The Associative Movement—Rev. Adin Ballou's
Letter—Mr. Brisbane's, and Mr. Ripley's Letters—Mr. Pratt's
Departure—The Great Party—Cyclops.
CHAPTER IX.
SOCIAL, AND PARLOR LIFE
Meetings in Boston, etc.—Two Lady Friends—Music at the
Eyry—Consciousness of Self—The Great Snow Storm—C. P. Cranch's
Imitations.
CHAPTER X.
FUN ALIVE
Fun at the Phalanx—Ripley's Quotation—On Punning—The Robbery, and the Waiting Group.
CHAPTER XI.
THE GREAT CATASTROPHE
The Last Dance, and the Fire—The Harbinger's Account of It—Feeding the Firemen—The Morning after the Fire.