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"But the thing is, Mamma, you see, at these conversaziones they never talk anything but French and German I don't know of course I should be delighted to have Fleda with me, and I have no doubt Mrs. Decatur would be very glad to have her; but I am afraid she wont enjoy herself." "I do not want to go where I shall not enjoy myself," said Fleda, quietly; "that is certain."
"I am happy, or contented, strictly speaking, in my home, and as soon as my husband realizes one or two of the ideas over which he is musing, happiness must be mine. A success in art will drag him forth; he must go to Paris to be feasted in the salons and lionized in the conversaziones." And her eyes blazed as she figured herself presiding at an assemblage of artists and patrons.
Not that she disapproved of dancing in London, as a rule; but she was indignant that the laws of a conversazione, as re-established by herself in the fashionable world, should be so violently infringed. "Conversaziones will come to mean nothing," she said to the bishop, putting great stress on the latter word, "nothing at all, if they are to be treated in this way."
To leave town at the height of the season, and just as she had achieved so great a triumph as her last ball was allowed to be, it was quite inexplicable. It was talked of, canvassed over, and commented upon, at the band stand, race course, conversaziones, and mess room, for several days, and, in fact, until the mystery was cleared up by a startling denouement.
"But the thing is, mamma, you see, at these conversaziones they never talk anything but French and German I don't know of course I should be delighted to have Fleda with me, and I have no doubt Mrs. Decatur would be very glad to have her but I am afraid she won't enjoy herself." "I do not want to go where I shall not enjoy myself," said Fleda quietly; "that is certain."
A conscious elevation marked his countenance, and he rose at once, five degrees in the estimation of his friends. In one of these interesting conversaziones, when Mr. At length, they pitched on Mr. I wish they may let him off with a cool five hundred!" Mr. C.'s ransom was soon joyfully adjusted by his friends, and now the wide world once more lay before him. A very old friend of Mr.
Alas! that was a happy time, when my carriage used to await me at the door of the Rocher de Cancale, and then whirl me to a succession of visits, varying in their degree and nature as the whim prompted: now to the brilliant soirees of Madame De , or to the appartemens au troisieme of some less celebrated daughter of dissipation and ecarte; now to the literary conversaziones of the Duchesse de D s, or the Vicomte d'A , and then to the feverish excitement of the gambling house.
In fact, her mind had never been overwhelmed by a wasteful torrent of learning. That the stream of literature had passed over, it was apparent only from its fertility. Mrs. Beaumont repented of having drawn her into conversation. Indeed, our heroine had trusted too much to some expressions, which had at times dropped from her son, about learned ladies, and certain conversaziones.
Montague's conversaziones, had the honour or the dishonour of giving the name of blue stockings to all the race; and never did race increase more rapidly than they have done from that time to this. There might be fear that all the daughters of the land should turn blue. But as yet John Bull thank Heaven! retains his good old privilege of "choose a wife and have a wife."
There were few persons the pleasure or honour of whose company could compensate to him for the loss of his time, or equal the enjoyment he had in his own occupations; and those few he was so happy to have for his friends, he did not wish to form new acquaintance he never went to conversaziones he was much obliged to her ladyship, but he did not want to be mentioned to great men or great women.
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