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Karasowski who saw some of them says they were tinged with melancholy. Despite his artistic success Chopin needed money and began to consider again his projected trip to America. Luckily he met Prince Valentine Radziwill on the street, so it is said, and was persuaded to play at a Rothschild soiree. From that moment his prospects brightened, for he secured paying pupils.
Soirée at Palazzo Sunbaldi. Passion Sunday. Horace Vernet. Lying in state of a cardinal. Miserere at Sistine Chapel. Holy Thursday at St. Peter's. Third cardinal dies. Meets Thorwaldsen at Signor Persianis's. Manners of English, French, and Americans. Landi's pictures. Funeral of a young girl. Trip to Tivoli, Subiaco. Procession of the Corpus Domini. Disagreeable experience Working hard.
We began on Monday evening with a musical soirée at the Beethoven Rooms, in Harley Street; and there was certainly nothing ghostly or sepulchral in our opening day; only then there was nothing very spiritualistic either. For a long time I thought it was going to be all tea and muffins and pianoforte. By-and-by, however, Mr.
One of the messengers opened the doors in front of him and conducted him to the floor above, where Monsieur le Ministre was then resting near the fire and glancing over the papers after breakfast. He appeared pleased but a little astonished at seeing Lissac. "Eh! my dear Guy, what a good idea! Have you arrived already for the soirée? You received your invitation?"
Although this circumstance is rather alarming to a novice, his terror soon gives place to self-congratulation when he finds the banquet re-appear, each dish completely carved and cut up. "Not being Sunday," said Mr. Sievers, "there is no opera to-night. We are to meet again, I believe, at the palace, in a few hours, at Madame Carolina's soiree.
Benj'n Disraeli, the author of 'Vivian Grey, is at the Mosely Arms Hotel, with Mrs. Disraeli. "I wish you would call and invite them to the soiree. "Yours truly, "R. COBDEN. "Mr. E. Watkin, "High St." I print the note exactly as it was written. It has appeared to me, since, that Mr. Cobden at that time considered it necessary to identify Mr. Disraeli as Mr.
She openly made love to him over the tea and coffee served at the "soirée" which followed the lecture. Her slow-witted guardian had no objection to offer; and there were not wanting go-betweens to urge on Rossiter with stories of her wealth and the expanding value of her financial interests.
At first, though, the children felt so stiff and funny in their new-shaped dresses made like other children's that they weren't natural, so I pretended we were having a soirée, and I went round and shook hands with every one. They got to laughing so at the names I gave them names that fit some, and didn't touch others by a thousand years that the stiffness went.
We were going to the Elysee Montmartre, and Alphonsine lent her a couple of louis, pour passer sa soiree, and we all went away in carriages, the little horses straining up the steep streets; the plumes of the women's hats floating over the carriage hoods. Marie was in one of the front carriages, and was waiting for us on the high steps leading from the street to the bal.
Later on London saw, perhaps too often, the sombre splendour of the Spanish Court, and to Elizabeth came envoys from all lands, whose dress, Shakespeare tells us, had an important influence on English costume. The Truth of Masks. Non, non, vous ne voulez pas cela. Vous me dites cela seulement pour me faire de la peine, parce que je vous ai regardee pendant toute la soiree. Eh! bien, oui.
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