To think we should have finished off the Queen of Huns?

[Hullygully]

Oh Mimi, it is quite enchanting. But is it not a little...girlish for one of your years?

Wheels for the mouse? Ah, for the ballroom, to help it avoid a similar fate to Gerald?

'ow old do you think I am?

I have yet to celebrate my 21st birthday!

Or your 22nd, or your 23rd...not having a party doesn't mean it didn't happen dear.

Oh me, I've spent ages trying to find exactly the right dress for you, Mimi dear, but the Babbington simply will not comply..

Mutton, Mimi, is all I'm going to say.

Mutton

Ladies ladies, I am returned from Bond Street. See here I visited Mr Dolce and the delghtful Mr Gabana

I hear that the gentlemen arrive and there may be dancing.
Shall I find a slip?

don't forget, chere Mme Umami, I was a spy for Napoleon, I know many things you might prefer to be kept private!

Repeat after me,

"Mimi Defarge is a fragrant young girl..."

(Spent some time wondering what a 'snap' is, and why Mimi would be eyeing one dangerously)

(OKay, becoming enraged again. What bit do you copy and paste to make the bally things work?)

harrumph!

Perchance Molly might return and help me in the kitchen as I concoct poisonous delectable sherbets for the assembled lovelies...

the address in the address bar, but make sure it has jpeg on the end

(Are you searching in Google Images? There is usually a 'see full sized image' thing to click - click that and copy that URL)

Paggy! what a marvellous costume...but ;might is be a chilly in the draughty spaces of the hall?

(Am I correct in thinking that a lot of pics don't have jpeg? Or just horrinly deranged and inexplicably thick?)

(They may be .gif rather than .jpeg, if that helps)

I think this is more you, Mimi

Paggy, I worry for the cold draughts about your nethers. Does it not have bloomers?

These, mayhap

(Aha. I think I have it now.)

brava, Mme Hully!

I entreat you, young women, to fill this turgid thread quickly with snaps of comedy costumes & to move on to fresh pastures...perhaps in Style & Beauty?

...I declare that tis moving so slowly (literally, not figuratively, of course)I am finding (French) empires are rising and falling in the time it takes me to negotiate my way from top to bottom

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Oh, MsMary, what do you wear this evening? Surely you are not going to the ball dressed thusly?

Come, take a little more of Molly's tincture and we will see what we can find in the wardrobes suitable for the seamstress to make over for you quickly. And we must do something with your hair. Mimi, put the poker to warm in the fire, there's a dear. I fancy we can probably find you some spare jewels, but we must be quick, the carriages will be here shortly.

Oh where is Pag? She is going to make us late! I think I must have some negus before we depart to calm myself. Here MsMary, you must have some too. No, I insist, it will do you the power of good.

What ails Ms Mary this late afternoon? How crochety and Old Maidish she sounds. She must have a bee in her bloomers.

The seamstress has had a little root about and suggests this (You may have to scroll a little)