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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], An English literary Woman. (search)
r great pride in going out was to take one of the cards sent to the office, and observe the effect it made upon the receiving attendant at operas, flower- shows or conversations. She always took care that the tickets for these last were sent to her; and her head-dress and black velvet bows, with pearl beads hanging down behind, was well to the fore whenever a mummy was unrolled, the fossil jawbone of an antediluvian animal was descanted on, or some sallow missionary presented himself at Burlington House to be congratulated by hundreds of dreary people on having escaped uneaten from some place to which he never ought to have gone. "She herself was fond of having occasionally what she called 'a social evening. ' This recreation was held on a Saturday, when there was no work at the Statesman office, when the principal members of the staff would be bidden, and when the condiments provided would be brown bread and butters rolled into corrects, tea and coffee, the lemonade, while the re