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It was only years afterwards that Marcella wondered where her aunt got the money to buy her the clothes that came from Edinburgh not many of them, but things severely plain and severely expensive. She knew that the man from Christy's came again she knew that two great oak chests, one from the landing and one from her mother's room, went away.
Garth, smiling at him, above her knitting, "or else the back-doors of the Tipton cottages." "No," said Caleb, gravely; "I am thinking that I could do a great turn for Fred Vincy. Christy's gone, Alfred will be gone soon, and it will be five years before Jim is ready to take to business.
There were card-parties and dances; there were Christy's Minstrels and the Hutchinson family; and some of the more intellectual circles had conversaziones where the best talent displayed itself. Still, Barnum could not be crowded out. No sarcasm withered him; and his variety was infinite. It was a safe place for mothers to go and take their children.
Certain personal and social matters had to be spoken of, and Paul had to ask about Florry Passford first, and Christy's father and mother afterwards, though there was no news to tell. "What are those vessels off there, Christy?" asked Paul, pointing to the Havana and the schooners. "They are our prizes," replied the first lieutenant. "Did you have to fight for them?" "A little, not much.
In spite of Christy's protest, the doctor insisted, and left him. The surgeon reported the condition of the first lieutenant to the commander at once, and a long conversation between them followed.
I foresaw the probability of Christy's deciding to become Earl of Glenthorn; notwithstanding that his good sense had so clearly demonstrated to him in theory, that, with his education and habits, he must be happier working in his forge than he could be as lord of Glenthorn Castle.
The remark which Captain Pecklar had made when he came partly upon the hurricane deck, that the Bellevite had changed her course because Major Pierson had been fool enough to fire at the tug, came up in Christy's mind again. He had thought of it at the time it was uttered, and several times since; but he had not had the time to weigh its meaning.
"Christy's Minstrels" claimed priority to the company already mentioned, but did not actually enter upon its New York career until 1846. "Bryant's Minstrels" and Buckley's "New Orleans Serenaders" were only two others of the most popular aggregations featuring and burlesquing the Negro.
"But she can have Eleanor's seat." Betty hesitated. "No, because they changed the chart after they heard about Christy's not coming. But Cora Thorne is sick, so I'm going to let T. have my seat, right among you girls that she used to know " "You're not going to do anything of the kind," declared Babbie hotly. "Shove everybody along one place, or else put in a seat for T."
The sequel was that it served her even a better turn than it had served Adelina Patti. I played and transposed for the piano most of the melodies of Foster as they were published, they being first produced in public by Christy's Minstrels. Stephen Foster was the ne'er-do-well of a good Pennsylvania family. A sister of his had married a brother of James Buchanan.
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