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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
Charities , and positively performed that duty in dumb show . An insult so gross as this might surely have been considered as the ne plus ultra of offensiveness . But it was as nothing compared with the event which followed it . After Bro . B . B . CabbeU's attempt to be heard , Miss Louisa Pyne ,
the most elegant and accomplished of our native artistes , commenced a song ; and though silence was commanded by the Grand Master , and those Brethren , who were not dead to every sense of shame , entreated that this lady might be heard , she was crushed by the noise , compelled to desist , and driven
from the Hall in tears ! We can imagine that many of the Brethren , who had not the common decency to remark that a young and elegant female , who had come thither to minister to their pleasure , was positively , though we would fain believe unintentionally ,
insulted , —will join in the refrain of the Entered Apprentices ' song on some future occasion ; but if they have any recollection remaining of their not having abstained from the gratification of their palates , when Miss Pyne was attempting to be heard at the Grand Festival , like Macbeth ' s " Amen , which stuck in his throat , " these words must surely do
so" We are true and sincere , And just to the fair !" If we may judge by our own feelings of indignation on the occasion , we can , in some measure , understand what the many elegant ladies , who occupied the gallery , must have thought of the scene passing beneath them . As many of
them as were the wives , daughters , and sisters of Freemasons must have been disgusted with the entire proceedings , and thoroughly ashamed that any relative of theirs was committed by his presence to such conduct ; whilst those who had no family connection with the Craft must have congratulated
themselves thereon , and recorded a silent vow that , as far as their influence could extend , no relation of theirs should ever be a Mason . We have very little doubt that the exposure of the conduct , which prevailed at Freemasons' Hall on the evening of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
Charities , and positively performed that duty in dumb show . An insult so gross as this might surely have been considered as the ne plus ultra of offensiveness . But it was as nothing compared with the event which followed it . After Bro . B . B . CabbeU's attempt to be heard , Miss Louisa Pyne ,
the most elegant and accomplished of our native artistes , commenced a song ; and though silence was commanded by the Grand Master , and those Brethren , who were not dead to every sense of shame , entreated that this lady might be heard , she was crushed by the noise , compelled to desist , and driven
from the Hall in tears ! We can imagine that many of the Brethren , who had not the common decency to remark that a young and elegant female , who had come thither to minister to their pleasure , was positively , though we would fain believe unintentionally ,
insulted , —will join in the refrain of the Entered Apprentices ' song on some future occasion ; but if they have any recollection remaining of their not having abstained from the gratification of their palates , when Miss Pyne was attempting to be heard at the Grand Festival , like Macbeth ' s " Amen , which stuck in his throat , " these words must surely do
so" We are true and sincere , And just to the fair !" If we may judge by our own feelings of indignation on the occasion , we can , in some measure , understand what the many elegant ladies , who occupied the gallery , must have thought of the scene passing beneath them . As many of
them as were the wives , daughters , and sisters of Freemasons must have been disgusted with the entire proceedings , and thoroughly ashamed that any relative of theirs was committed by his presence to such conduct ; whilst those who had no family connection with the Craft must have congratulated
themselves thereon , and recorded a silent vow that , as far as their influence could extend , no relation of theirs should ever be a Mason . We have very little doubt that the exposure of the conduct , which prevailed at Freemasons' Hall on the evening of the