...han on the petites soirees. We stayed late, however, for Mad. Martinetti enjoyed it so well that she did not at all like to come away. December 28.—. . . . In the evening I was presented at Court , which took a tedious while; for I left home before seven o'clock and did not get back till nearly ten, the first hour being spent in assembling, with eight or ten other Americans, at General Cass's ...