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some Etruscan potteries.
Dr. Howe took up one of these rather carelessly.
It was a cup, and the handle became separated from it. My husband appeared so much disconcerted at this that I could not help laughing a little at the expression of his countenance.
Mr. Rogers afterwards said to an American friend, ‘Mrs. Howe was quite cruel to laugh at the doctor's embarrassment.’
On one occasion he showed us some autograph letters of Lord Byron, with whom he had been well acquainted.
He read a passage from one of these, in which Lord Byron, after speaking of the ancient custom of the Doge wedding the Adriatic, wrote: ‘I wish the Adriatic would take my wife.’
In after years I was sometimes questioned as to what had most impressed me during my first visit in London.
I replied unhesitatingly, ‘The clever people collected there.’
The moment, indeed, was fortunate.
We had come well provided with letters of introduction.
Besides this, my husband was at the time a first-class lion, and this merit avails more in England than any other, and more there than elsewhere.
Mr. Sumner had given us a letter to the Marquis of Lansdowne, which the latter honored by a call, and further by sending us cards for a musical evening at Lansdowne House. Lord Lansdowne was a gracious host.
His lady was more formal in manner.
Their music-room was oblong
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