opera-parties

Updated: June 28, 2025

It seems to us that in our own far prime now well-nigh lost in the mists of antiquity life was ordered kindlier; that dinners and opera-parties and dances were given 'To bless and never to ban." "Very likely, on the low society level on which our joint life moved," our other self replied, with his unsparing candor. "You know we were a country village, city-of-the-second-class personality.

William Dean Howells - Imaginary Interviews