Just, though not delicately beautiful, was as splendid an Irish damsel as man need look upon, with a grand masque, aquiline features, luxuriant black hair, andthough it was the fag-end of the London seasonthe unrivalled Irish complexion, as of the fair dame of Kilkenny, whose "Lips were like roses, her cheeks were the same, Like a dish of fresh strawberries smother'd in crame.

If I was housekeeper here, an' cud have hothouse strawberries, an' swatebreads undher glass, an' sparrowgrass, an' chicken, an' ice crame, the way you can, whiniver yuh loike, I wouldn't be a-eatin' cornbeef an' cabbage.