CHAPTER XXVI.

New Era in New York Society--Extravagance of Living--Grand Fancy Dress Ball in Fifth Avenue--I go as the Lover of Margaret de Valois--A great Journalist at Newport--A British Officer rides into a Club House--The great Journalist’s masked Ball--A mysterious Blue Domino--Breakfast at Southwick’s Grove to the Duke of Beaufort--Picnic given President Arthur--His hearty Enjoyment of it--Governor Morgan misjudges my “Open Air Lunches”--The Pleasure of Country Frolics, 349