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One felt ashamed of oneself at being in ball-dress and jewels at this early hour, galloping through the streets in a fine carriage, making such a dreadful contrast to the poor working-people. I had great fun at Lady Harrington's musical soiree, where Arthur Sullivan's "Prodigal Son" was to be sung. We had been dining at Lady Londonderry's, and arrived rather late at Lady Harrington's.
It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirées are tedious, and because the soirée finds us tedious.
Time has become the costliest commodity, so no one can afford the lavish extravagance of going home to-morrow morning and getting up late. Hence, there is no second soiree now but at the houses of women rich enough to entertain, and since July 1830 such women may be counted in Paris.
"By the way," cried Fred, "Let's have a musical soiree to-night. What do you all say?" This proposition was enthusiastically received. "Come, Will, let's run up and get the organ. Will you go up?" addressing Joe and Sam. "Go up, my sons, and see this Alladin's palace," said Mr. Barton. "You will never see its like again." In half an hour they returned.
But the chateau people, heads of families possessing great estates, in short, the highest personages in the department, do not go to their houses; social intercourse between them is carried on by cards from one to the other, and a dinner or soiree accepted and returned. This salon, in which the lesser nobility, the clergy, and the magistracy meet together, exerts a great influence.
We have to make special calls on the Carter Halls, Dr. Bowring, and the Pringles, and are to be introduced to their ramifications of acquaintance. Allan Cunningham, L. E. L., and Thomas Roscoe we are sure to see. In Miss Landon's now forgotten novel, Romance and Reality, there is a little sketch of Mary Howitt as she appeared at a literary soiree, during her brief visit to London.
"No salvation possible, says my Dearest? Hah! And an innocent Court-Mask or Dancing Soiree is criminal in the sight of God and of the Queen? And we are children of wrath wholly, and a frivolous generation; and the Queen will see us all !"
When I think of "A Portrait of a Lady," with its marvellous crowd of well-dressed people, it comes back to me precisely as an accurate memory of a fashionable soirée the staircase with its ascending figures, the hostess smiling, the host at a little distance with his back turned; some one calls him.
There are a few men who contrive to be great and to be men of the world at the same time. But what society wants is polish. You can put gloss on varnish, but some of these men are too original to be sand-papered down to a fashionable uniformity. No, no! Old Red Sandstone and his wife over there are well enough at a lion soirée, but how would their Silurian manners shine at the Patriarchs' ball?
She, good soul! in her deafness, knew nothing about the horrors of the evening, and was profuse of her civilities. "So amiable of these gentlemen to honor her little soirée so kind of M'sieur Müller to have exerted himself to make things go off pleasantly so sorry we would not stay half an hour longer," &c., &c. Passing M. Lenoir without so much as a glance, he paused a moment before Mdlle.
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