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All sorts and conditions of men went to them. Beautiful Amelia Opie, in her poorest days, spent five pounds to gain admittance to one given to the Russian ambassadors. Mrs.
The picture by Opie was exhibited from Mr. The Journal notes: January 1876. I meant to go to Paris, but gout came on, and I gave it up. March 28th. Sent down furniture, &c. by vans to Foxholes. April 2nd. Took possession of Foxholes; cold and windy, and I gouty. To Mr. T. Longman Foxholes, April 19th.
The Man poured whiskey from his flask into a glass, added water, and held it to Amos's lips, where it was quickly and completely absorbed! Next he put a finger on Amos's pulse and after a minute closed his watch with a snap, but without comment. "You feel better now, Opie?" he questioned presently in a tone that, to the old man at least, was significant. "What gave you this turn?
Opie, the Martineaus, and the Aldersons, took kindly to the same forces in him; forces descended from that New England Puritanism which produced half the great men and women of an earlier America.
The mystery and romance of interviews with her love, "undreamt-of by the world in its primness," appeared far more enchanting than any authorized attachment provided with a regulation gooseberry picker. So she came down with a slightly defiant air; but meeting with nothing worse than a gravely knowing glance from Miss Opie, sat down to the piano to escape questioning. Mrs.
If he attempt any foolish, trifling conversation, you should check it with cold civility." Bluebell burst into an irreverent fit of laughter, and even Mrs. Leigh said, "Oh, those are your English ideas, Aunt Jane; we are not so stiff in Canada." Mrs. Opie having been a governess for ten years in the mother country, was looked upon as a naturalized Briton.
There was a full-length picture of her when she was young and happy; another, beautiful, by Opie or Lawrence, standing screwing up a harp with one hand, and playing with her little daughter with the other. To MRS. RUXTON. 8 HOLLES STREET, March 9. We are comfortably settled in this good central situation. We were last Monday at a select early party at Mrs. Hope's.
One small, from a drawing from the life, and engraved by Trotter, for his Life published by Kearsley. 15. One large, from Opie, by Mr. This is one of the finest mezzotintos that ever was executed; and what renders it of extraordinary value, the plate was destroyed after four or five impressions only were taken off.
Inchbald and Mrs. Opie, Maria Edgeworth and Mrs. Barbauld, at the end of the last and beginning of this century, were fêted and praised as seldom falls to the lot of their successors of the present generation. But, despite this fact, they were not quite sure that they were keeping within the limits of feminine modesty by publishing their writings.
Amos Opie, the carpenter, owner of Opal Farm, is now keeping widower's hall in the summer kitchen thereof. A thin thread of smoke comes idly from the chimney of the lean-to in the early morning, and at evening the old man sits in the well-house porch reading his paper so long as the light lasts, a hound of the ancient blue-spotted variety, with heavy black and tan markings, keeping him company.
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