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Stanford E. Chaille (search for this): chapter 29
hink it consistent with his duty to the U. S. Government to accept it. He came to advise with Mr. Davis and to say this. Less than two months afterward, General Lopez sat strapped in a garrote chair, and was executed with several Americans of good social position, who had been persuaded to join him. One of them, Clement Stanford, an exceedingly daring and bright young man from Natchez, and an enthusiast for liberty, was the uncle of the Dean of the Medical Faculty of New Orleans, Stanford E. Chaille, M. D. Very little of Mr. Davis's time was devoted to the claims of society. He was so impervious to the influence of anything but principle in shaping his political course, that he underrated the effect of social intercourse in determining the action of public men, and never sought to exert it in behalf of his own policy. In consequence, we went out but little, and spent our evenings together, he in making the more important corrections in the printer's proof of his speeches-af
Paul Kock (search for this): chapter 29
or my amusement throughout this otherwise dull work. In rare cases, where he was attached to the friends who gave the invitation, he accepted. In those days, when mammas considered the Pickwick papers too coarse for their daughters' perusal; when Don Juan was forbidden on pain of excommunication from the guild of delicate-minded women; when Devereux and The Disowned were placed behind the other books on the shelves of the library, as unfit for the eyes of ladies; when George Sand and Paul de Kock were named with bated breath, and the young people knew them not; when Miss Austen's correct ladies and gentlemen walked serenely across the literary stage and looked their approval of their equally prudent audience; when Lady Delacour's duel with Harriet Freke was considered an incident to be deprecated while reading Miss Edgeworth's novels, and Lady Audley's secret was held in reserve and not to be confided lightly to the young; when we still argued hotly over the relative merits of Di
Pickwick (search for this): chapter 29
icy. In consequence, we went out but little, and spent our evenings together, he in making the more important corrections in the printer's proof of his speeches-after which I attended to the minor details-or in dictating letters to his constituents; and many were the jests and anecdotes he interspersed for my amusement throughout this otherwise dull work. In rare cases, where he was attached to the friends who gave the invitation, he accepted. In those days, when mammas considered the Pickwick papers too coarse for their daughters' perusal; when Don Juan was forbidden on pain of excommunication from the guild of delicate-minded women; when Devereux and The Disowned were placed behind the other books on the shelves of the library, as unfit for the eyes of ladies; when George Sand and Paul de Kock were named with bated breath, and the young people knew them not; when Miss Austen's correct ladies and gentlemen walked serenely across the literary stage and looked their approval of t
Stockton (search for this): chapter 29
t her. He told me in confidence that he had not read much in Miss Bremer's books, and only remembered some girl's trouble about her nose, which, as she was ugly, did not concern me. However, I was full of the happy anticipation of seeing the authoress of my favorite books. One very hot summer evening, when the moon was nearly full, we went to Mr. Seaton's large old-fashioned house on C Street, to a high tea. When we entered, besides several agreeable men, Mrs. Webster, Mrs. Gales, Commodore Stockton, Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, of Massachusetts, and Senator Green, of Rhode Island, with his gray-haired, charming wife, were present. Then and there ceased my desire to look with the naked eye upon the authors and authoresses that warn, comfort, and command us in our journey through the world. Miss Bremer was not more than five feet high, her nose was all Petraea had unavailingly tried to suppress, and red as a damask rose, of which color her face had also partaken; her eyes were a p
McWillie (search for this): chapter 29
Chapter 29 Cuban offers. In the spring of 1848, we lived in the house next door to the United States Hotel, and went in to our meals across a little bridge that communicated with the dining-room. Governor McWillie, of Mississippi, and his family, Mr. and Mrs. Toombs, of Georgia, and Mr. and Mrs. Burt, of South Carolina, made up our mess. Mrs. Burt was the niece of Mr. Calhoun, and a very handsome and amiable woman. Her husband was a strong-hearted, faithful, honest man who agreed with Mr. Calhoun in most things. We did not know his full worth then, and mistook him for simply an elegant man, formed to adorn society; but when he was tried by the fires of adversity, the metal that was in him shone without a grain of alloy. Mr. and Mrs. Toombs were both comparatively young, and one could scarcely imagine a wittier and more agreeable companion than he was. He was a university man, and had kept up his classics. He had the personal habits of a fine gentleman, and talked such
Harriet Freke (search for this): chapter 29
s forbidden on pain of excommunication from the guild of delicate-minded women; when Devereux and The Disowned were placed behind the other books on the shelves of the library, as unfit for the eyes of ladies; when George Sand and Paul de Kock were named with bated breath, and the young people knew them not; when Miss Austen's correct ladies and gentlemen walked serenely across the literary stage and looked their approval of their equally prudent audience; when Lady Delacour's duel with Harriet Freke was considered an incident to be deprecated while reading Miss Edgeworth's novels, and Lady Audley's secret was held in reserve and not to be confided lightly to the young; when we still argued hotly over the relative merits of Di. Vernon and Belinda; when some old-fashioned girls wept over Thaddeus of Warsaw, and there were even some who yet gazed lovingly at Amanda Fitz-Allen's tearful fainting form as it was borne off from Lord Mortimer--Frederika Bremer's Neighbors gave us our first
Devereux (search for this): chapter 29
hes-after which I attended to the minor details-or in dictating letters to his constituents; and many were the jests and anecdotes he interspersed for my amusement throughout this otherwise dull work. In rare cases, where he was attached to the friends who gave the invitation, he accepted. In those days, when mammas considered the Pickwick papers too coarse for their daughters' perusal; when Don Juan was forbidden on pain of excommunication from the guild of delicate-minded women; when Devereux and The Disowned were placed behind the other books on the shelves of the library, as unfit for the eyes of ladies; when George Sand and Paul de Kock were named with bated breath, and the young people knew them not; when Miss Austen's correct ladies and gentlemen walked serenely across the literary stage and looked their approval of their equally prudent audience; when Lady Delacour's duel with Harriet Freke was considered an incident to be deprecated while reading Miss Edgeworth's novels,
Delacour (search for this): chapter 29
perusal; when Don Juan was forbidden on pain of excommunication from the guild of delicate-minded women; when Devereux and The Disowned were placed behind the other books on the shelves of the library, as unfit for the eyes of ladies; when George Sand and Paul de Kock were named with bated breath, and the young people knew them not; when Miss Austen's correct ladies and gentlemen walked serenely across the literary stage and looked their approval of their equally prudent audience; when Lady Delacour's duel with Harriet Freke was considered an incident to be deprecated while reading Miss Edgeworth's novels, and Lady Audley's secret was held in reserve and not to be confided lightly to the young; when we still argued hotly over the relative merits of Di. Vernon and Belinda; when some old-fashioned girls wept over Thaddeus of Warsaw, and there were even some who yet gazed lovingly at Amanda Fitz-Allen's tearful fainting form as it was borne off from Lord Mortimer--Frederika Bremer's Ne
Audley (search for this): chapter 29
e Disowned were placed behind the other books on the shelves of the library, as unfit for the eyes of ladies; when George Sand and Paul de Kock were named with bated breath, and the young people knew them not; when Miss Austen's correct ladies and gentlemen walked serenely across the literary stage and looked their approval of their equally prudent audience; when Lady Delacour's duel with Harriet Freke was considered an incident to be deprecated while reading Miss Edgeworth's novels, and Lady Audley's secret was held in reserve and not to be confided lightly to the young; when we still argued hotly over the relative merits of Di. Vernon and Belinda; when some old-fashioned girls wept over Thaddeus of Warsaw, and there were even some who yet gazed lovingly at Amanda Fitz-Allen's tearful fainting form as it was borne off from Lord Mortimer--Frederika Bremer's Neighbors gave us our first glimpse of Swedish everyday life. Petraa's nose was a matter of widespread sympathy, and we laughed
Petraea (search for this): chapter 29
ioned house on C Street, to a high tea. When we entered, besides several agreeable men, Mrs. Webster, Mrs. Gales, Commodore Stockton, Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, of Massachusetts, and Senator Green, of Rhode Island, with his gray-haired, charming wife, were present. Then and there ceased my desire to look with the naked eye upon the authors and authoresses that warn, comfort, and command us in our journey through the world. Miss Bremer was not more than five feet high, her nose was all Petraea had unavailingly tried to suppress, and red as a damask rose, of which color her face had also partaken; her eyes were a pale blue, and not large. On her head, concealing all but a few strands of dark hair, was a wondrous cap with aspiring bows of purple ribbon amidst a chevaux-de-frise of white lace. On her person was a large round lace cape, then called a cardinal, which covered her from throat to feet, and was lined also with purple silk. We were all presented with due ceremony, and
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