Recollections of Seventy YearsTicknor and Fields, 1865 - Broj stranica: 331 Primarily anecdotes of famous people, including about 20 women ; two chapters discuss marriage. |
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Stranica 126 - The women in gay-colored cotton gowns, and white caps with full double borders, made a very gay appearance. As we all passed through the crowd to the school-house, the enmity of the Papists to Protestant landholders was but too evident. Though Mrs. Edgeworth had been 'the Lady Bountiful of the village for many years, there were no bows or smirks for her and her friends, •no making way before her, ii0 touching of hats or pleasant looks. A sullen expression and a dogged immovability were on every...
Stranica 124 - She was full of anecdotes about remarkable people, and often spoke from her personal knowledge of them. Her memory, too, was stored with valuable information, and her manner of narrating was so animated, that it was difficult to realize her age. In telling an anecdote of Mirabeau, she stepped out before us, and extending her arm, spoke a sentence of his in the impassioned manner of a French orator, and did it so admirably that it was quite thrilling.
Stranica 124 - In conversation we found her delightful. She was full of anecdotes about remarkable people, and often spoke from her personal knowledge of them. Her memory, too, was stored with valuable information, and her manner of narrating was so animated that it was difficult to realize her age. In telling an...
Stranica 121 - The finest lace ruffles about her neck and elbows, with a longwaisted silk dress of rich texture and delicate color, produced an effect that was quite bewitching. She was wonderfully well preserved for a lady of over eighty years of age, and it was pleasant to see the great attention paid to her by all the family. She was rather deaf, so I was seated by her side, and requested to address my conversation to her. When lunch was over, she was wheeled into the library, and occupied herself making a cotton...
Stranica 326 - Her life of privation and seclusion was very injurious to both body and mind. How great that seclusion was, is seen in the following passage from another of her letters to me. " I am glad to know that you are still alive and on this side of that wide sea which parts me from so many that were once so near, for I have lived here much like a departed spirit, looking back on the joys and sorrows of a world in which I have no longer any place. I have been more than a year in this house, and have had but...
Stranica 126 - It was market-day : so the main street was full of the lower order of Irish, with their horses and carts, asses and panniers, tables and stands full of eatables and articles of clothing. Sometimes the cart or car served as a counter on which to display their goods. The women, in brightcolored cotton gowns and white caps with full double borders, made a very gay appearance.
Stranica 324 - Your ten pounds was brought me two or three hours after your letter came, and I sent it immediately to Mr. Walker, and now I am entirely relieved of that most painful feeling of the impropriety of depending upon him in this way, which it has required all my faith and philosophy to endure, because he can now very well wait for the rest, and perceive that the postponement is not an indefinite one. Your letter has warmed my heart, and that was what had suffered most. I would have frozen into a Niobe...
Stranica 326 - Deprived of her expected emolument from writing articles for a periodical, she was much distressed for want of funds, and suffered many privations during the time that she was writing her book. She lived on the poorest food, and was often without the means of having a fire in her chamber. She told me that she wrote a great- part of her large octavo volume sitting up in bed, in order to keep warm.
Stranica 121 - She reminded me of the pictures of the court beauties of the time of Louis XIV. Her dress was truly elegant, and very elaborate. Her white hair had the effect of powder, and the structure on it defies description. A very white throat. was set off to advantage by a narrow black velvet ribbon, fastened by a jewel. The finest lace ruffles about her neck and elbows, with a longwaisted...
Stranica 124 - Miss Edgeworth was very short, and carried herself very upright, with a dapper figure and quick movements. She was the remains of a blonde, with light eyes and hair ; she was now gray, but wore a dark frisette, whilst the gray hair showed through her cap behind. In conversation we found her delightful. She was full of anecdotes about remarkable people, and often spoke from her personal knowledge of them. Her memory, too, was stored with...