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In the meantime Foote's Primitive Puppet-show, entitled the Handsome Housemaid, or Piety on Pattens, had been brought out at the Haymarket on the 15th of February. All the world, fashionable and unfashionable, had crowded to the theater. The street was thronged with equipages the doors were stormed by the mob. The burlesque was completely successful, and sentimental comedy received its quietus.
Then she trundled over to where Sophy stood and patted her leathery cheek. "Welcome to our city!" said Miss Ella Morrissey. For eleven years Martha Foote, head housekeeper at the Senate Hotel, Chicago, had catered, unseen, and ministered, unknown, to that great, careless, shifting, conglomerate mass known as the Travelling Public. Wholesale hostessing was Martha Foote's job.
The legislature supported Quitman's and Jefferson Davis's plans for resistance, censured Foote's support of the Compromise, and provided for a state convention of delegates. Even the Mississippi "Unionists" adopted the six standard points generally accepted in the South which would justify resistance. "And this is the Union party", was the significant comment of the New York Tribune.
A full report of his work appears in the "Selections," and this is accompanied by a map in which Mr. Foote has sketched out the distribution of the auriferous rocks. In the "Selections" alluded to there, is also a "Report on the Auriferous Tracts in Mysore," by Mr. Walter Marsh, Mining Engineer. But in the brief remarks I have to make I shall confine my attention to Mr. Foote's Report. Mr.
Johnson wrote of Foote's death: 'The world is really impoverished by his sinking glories. Piozzi Letters, i. 396. See ante, p. 185, note 1. 'Allowance must be made for some degree of exaggerated praise, he said in speaking of epitaphs. 'In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. Ante, ii. 407. Garrick retired in January 1776, three years before his death.
"I'm sorry to be a-botherin' ye, Mis' Phut. It's Nellie speakin' Irish Nellie on the sixt'." "What's the trouble, Nellie?" "It's that six-eighteen again. She's goin' on like mad. She's carryin' on something fierce." "What about?" "Th' th' blankets, Mis' Phut." "Blankets? "She says it's her wurruds, not mine she says they're vile. Vile, she says." Martha Foote's spine had stiffened. "In this house!
She was interrupted in the transcription of a letter by a stern voice behind her, saying: "You're young Foote's anarchist, aren't you?" She looked up frightened into the unsmiling eyes of Malcolm Lightener. "Mr. Foote got me my place here," she said, hesitatingly. "Here take this letter." And almost before she could snatch book and pencil he was dictating, rapidly, dynamically.
In Foote's "Nabob" there are sundry local and personal satires which are entirely lost to a foreigner. The character of the Nabob was performed by a Mr. Palmer.
It's driving me crazy. Blanche, you fool, stop that hand wringing! I tell you there's no such thing as ghosts. Now you" she turned to Martha Foote again "you tell me, for God's sake, what is that!" And into Martha Foote's face there came such a look of mingled compassion and mirth as to bring a quick flame of fury into Geisha McCoy's eyes. "Look here, you may think it's funny but " "I don't.
What right had a man in Foote's position to stand in her thoughts beside Dulac? He was everything Dulac was not; Dulac was nothing that Foote was. She realized she was getting nowhere, was only confusing herself. Perhaps, she told herself, when Dulac was present, when he asked her to be his wife, she would know what to answer. So, resolutely, she put the matter from her mind.
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