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[225] on his knees and stumbled up and barked and fell again; a short, elderly lady in a white dress — such were Miss Gibbs and her belongings. She was delighted to see me and kept jumping up to get cake, and then to get wine, and then to get singular little apples such as Newport produces and sells by the quart.... Then Miss G. showed me the dining-room and the conservatory and the polished, uncarpeted floors .. and then finally she showed me Doppo.

·. . .She is a high-born style of Pigeon Cove Dorcas. She is rather tall, stoops a good deal, wears one very tight dress with nothing under it but herself (Mrs. Bartol is a balloon to her), and works in the kitchen with a large straw bonnet tied tight under her chin, and no trimming. She regarded me as a son-in-law.

Miscellaneous gleanings from Newport letters and journals are arranged according to subject rather than date. Most of the letters were written to Colonel Higginson's sisters, his mother having died.

One of the interesting acquaintances he made in that seaport town, where he lived for a dozen years or more, was an Englishwoman, Lady Amberley, from whom he drew one of his Malbone characters. He wrote in 1867:

The pleasantest things I have done have been with the Amberleys — Lord and Lady. He is the eldest son of Earl Russell and she daughter of Lord Stanley. I breakfasted with them ... last Monday. ... I met them also at a party that evening, and liked them so much that I invited them to drive to Bishop Berkeley's

Boston and New York. Houhgton Mifflin Company. 1921.

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