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Bombay the rising Presidency Probability of its becoming the Seat of Government The Anglo-Indian Society of Bombay Style of Living The Gardens inferior to those of Bengal Interiors of the Houses more embellished Absence of Glass-windows an evil The Bungalows The Encamping-ground Facility and despatch of a change of residence Visit to a tent entertainment Inconveniences attending a residence in tents Want of Hotels and Boarding-houses Deficiency of public Amusements in Bombay Lectures and Conversaziones suggested, as means of bringing the native community into more frequent intercourse with Europeans English spoken by the superior classes of natives Natives form a very large portion of the wealth and intelligence of Bombay Nothing approaching the idea of a City to be seen The climate more salubrious than that of Bengal Wind blows hot and cold at the same time Convenience a stranger finds in so many domestic servants speaking English Their peculiar mode of speaking it Dress of servants Their wages The Cooks Improved by Lord Clare Appointments of the tables The Ramoosee Watchmen Their vociferations during the night Fidelity of the natives Controversy concerning their disregard of truth.
Last, but not least, I had the two Censors, Sir Edward Cook and Sir Frank Swettenham. It was as if The Thunderer and Mercury had descended to play with mere mortals. My two naval experts, Admiral Cyprian Bridge and Admiral Custance, were among the most constant supporters of my Conversaziones. They proved very popular with the correspondents.
He has a particular contempt, in which I most heartily concur with him, for the fadaises of bluestocking literature, for the mutual flatteries of coteries, the handing about of vers de societe, the albums, the conversaziones, and all the other nauseous trickeries of the Sewards, Hayleys, and Sothebys.
The great magnet was the famed Mademoiselle Scudery, whose voluminous romances were their code; and it is supposed these tomes preserve some of their lengthened conversaziones.
They took him to all the theatres, the conversaziones of all the nobility, and as Jack lost his money with good humour, and was a very handsome fellow, he was everywhere well received and was made much of: many ladies made love to him, but Jack was only very polite, because he thought more and more of Agnes every day.
Those men of talent, whom she had heard were to be seen at conversaziones, or of whom she had had a glimpse in fine society, now appeared in a new point of view, and to the best advantage; without those pretensions and rivalships with which they sometimes are afflicted in public, or those affectations and singularities, which they often are supposed to assume, to obtain notoriety among persons inferior to them in intellect and superior in fashion.
During the journey, she could not refrain from drawing a comparison to Miss Dorothy between the dissipated insipidity of Lady Dundas's way of life and the rationality as well as splendor of her late lamented aunt's. Lady Somerset's monthly assemblies were not the most elegant and brilliant parties in town, but her weekly conversaziones surpassed everything of the kind in the kingdom.
The literary and scientific conversaziones given by Lord Auckland, in Calcutta, afford a precedent for an institution of the kind; the successful features might be copied, and if there should have been any failures, the experience thus gained would prevent similar hazards.
In the country, small dancing-parties, tea-parties, and conversaziones are also comprised under the head of parties; but the outdoor occasions are of much greater number and variety: croquet parties, sailing parties, boating parties, pic-nics, private fetes, berrying parties, nutting parties, May festivals, Fourth of July festivals in fact, anything that will give an excuse for a day spent in out-door frolicking.
They were for the day: in the evening, he tells Moore, "I do one of many nothings either at the theatres, or some of the conversaziones, which are like our routs, or rather worse, for the women sit in a semi-circle by the lady of the mansion, and the men stand about the room.
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