Das Leben und die Briefe von Washington Irving. ats, ging ich in den anderen ahuff Haus und sah Alboni in der Somnambula, die sie Bewunderung durchgeführt. An einem anderen Abend vor seinem Start, Gefühl in der cityamusement, schreibt er, ging ich zu Wallacks, und sah die oldplay der Straße zu ruinieren, in exzellenten Stil gespielt. Er alsowent zu einem Ball, wo, obwohl nach der Oper, er selbst unter den frühen gefunden. Ich glaube, so schreibt er an einen unmarriedniece, einer der Pleasantest Kugeln, in denen ich für eine lange Zeit gewesen sein, da ich den ganzen Abend auf einem Sofa neben N Sat, im vorderen Zimmer

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The life and letters of Washington Irving . ats, I went off in ahuff to the other house, and saw Alboni in the Somnambula, which she performed to admiration. On another evening before his start, feeling in want of cityamusement, he writes, I went to Wallacks, and saw the oldplay of the Road to Ruin, played in excellent style. He alsowent to a ball, where, though after the opera, he found himself among the early ones. I think it, he writes to an unmarriedniece, one of the pleasantest balls I have been at for a long time, inasmuch as I sat all the evening on a sofa beside N , in the front room up stairs, where they received their guests, so as toleave the rooms down stairs free for the dancers. In this way Isaw a great part of the company in the course of the evening, without fatigue, and without going into the ballrooms to be crowded, and cramped, and kicked into a corner. Besides, he adds, witha touch of fun, the dances that are the fashion put me out ofcountenance, and are not such as a gentleman of my years ought to witness. 142. LIFE AND LETTERS OF WASHINGTON IRVING. 143 On the 17th he had reached Baltimore, as will appear by thefollowing letter :— [To Miss Catherine Irving, Sunny side. Baltimore, January 17, 1853., My Dear Kate :— In a letter to Sarah, I gave an account of my whereabouts andwhatabouts while in New York, last week, where I was detained beyondmy intended time by a snow-storm. I was rather in a humdrum moodduring my sojourn; and, although I had big dinners, gay balls, Italianoperas, and Banvards Diorama to entertain me, I would willingly havestolen back to my native plains, and given up the gay world, and allterrestrial joys. The last evening of my detention, however, the weatherand my dull humor cleared up; the latter, doubtless, under the influenceof Sontags charms, who, in the Daughter of the Regiment, looked, played, and sang divinely. The next morning proving bright and fair, I broke up my encamp-ment, and got down to the foot of Cortlandt Str

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1880
• bookpublishernewyo
• bookyear1883