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As it was, he took refuge in his habitual reserve, and, lest the exhibition should be prolonged on his account, took care to shew no more interest in it than was barely necessary to satisfy Mr. Lind. At last it was over; and they returned westward together in a hansom. "He is a Yankee, I suppose," said Douglas, as if ingenuity were a low habit that must be tolerated in an American. "Yes.
"This is better," Miss Thorley told him with pleasing promptness. "Mifflin would have reminded her of Jenny Lind. You can take her there some other day." "Will you go, too?" eagerly. "I'll go any day you say." But she only smiled over her shoulder as she went up the steps and into the meetinghouse. A quiet peaceful hour followed and when the service was over Mary Rose slipped one hand around Mr.
"You are very generous, Mrs. Leith Fairfax. It would not be well to encourage him too much, however. You must recollect that he is not used to society. Injudicious encouragement might perhaps lead him to forget his real place in it." "I do not agree with you, Mr. Lind. You do not read human nature as I do. You know that I am an expert.
* I know princes of the blood, foreign princes, great lords, ministers of state, magistrates, and philosophers who would even spin for love of you. What can you ask more? "/Lindore./ I I believe it will choke me. I'm in love * Now hold your tongue. Hold your tongue, I say. "/Dalner./ You in love! Ha! ha! "/Lind./ There, he laughs. "/Dal./ No; I am really sorry for you." * "What is here? Gold."
Lind travelled to Horsham, and by his sympathy and skill restored the sick boy's confidence. It may incidentally be pointed out that this story, credited as true by Lady Shelley in her Memorials, shows how early an estrangement had begun between the poet and his father.
The prices paid for tickets, the enormous receipts, and the generous gifts in charity of Jenny Lind are not fables. Yet the glamour of youth has its part in all recollection of the days of splendor in the flower.
"She has struck me a blow," said Douglas, "the infernal treachery ." He checked himself, and after a moment resumed in his ordinary formal manner. "I must leave you, Mr. Lind. I am quite unable at present to discuss what has passed. Any conventional expressions of regret would be Good-night." He bowed and left the room. Mr.
The proceeds of this first concert were twenty-six thousand dollars, of which Jenny Lind gave her share to the charitable institutions of New York, and, on learning that some of the members of the New York orchestra were in indigent circumstances, she generously made them a substantial gift. Her beneficent actions during her entire stay in America are too numerous to detail.
It's like Jenny Lind when the sun is shining and she has had a leaf of fresh lettuce. It makes me feel in my heart like soda water feels in my nose, all prickly and light," vaguely. "It's it's wonderful! Take this place," she moved generously away from the crack that Miss Proctor might put her ear to it. "You can hear better. When I grow up I want to play just like that."
The bell-like tones of the Jenny Lind voice in "Home, Sweet Home," and "The Last Rose of Summer" still come back to me, but too long after for me to make, or imagine, comparisons between it and the vocalism of Grisi, Sontag and Parepa-Rosa. Meeting Mr.
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