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“ I see women in high-waisted frocks, through the diaphanous skirts of which their garter-buckles sparkle; gentlemen in colored coats and trousers strapped under their boots, and funny truncated-cone hats perched on their abundant hair ”

“ How little do we think of all these fine folks now—almost as little as they thought of us; yet in their own eyes they were as real and important as we are in ours—they, who now are nothing, as we in our turn shall soon be nothing! ”

“ He seems to have been well supplied with money, and treated her generously from that point of view; but their temperaments clashed: they quarreled and made up; he never brought her to New England, but at the time of the Seminole War they were residing in Baltimore, and it was there that she gave birth to a child, which died in infancy while Captain Heathcote was helping Jackson singe the King of Spain's beard in Florida, and tread on the mighty toes of Great Britain. Dolores does not appear afterward in the story. I incline to think she rejoined her family in New Orleans. ”

“ Asgard, the distinguished soprano, had the honor to sing before H. R. H. the Prince Regent and a small company of his friends. H. R. H. afterward declared himself pleased with her performance. Mrs. Asgard afterward drank tea with H. R. H and his guests. That's all! But when I shut my eyes I can almost see a slender, upright figure, with a laughing sparkle in her eyes, standing up before the group of lords and ladies, and singing—singing! ”

“ There is no doubt that he was in the battle of New Orleans, and by that time was on cordial terms with Jackson—although Jackson was much the elder, the two were kindred spirits. In New Orleans he met the girl whom he married (after a whirlwind courtship, I fancy!) Her given-name was Dolores; her family Spanish. He was now about thirty years old.
Their matrimonial experience was probably far from being tame and uneventful. He must have been a hard man to manage;and she hardly qualified to exercise judicious management. ”

“ This must refer to the Seminole War, and preceded the arrival in London of my ancestor. But the "Personal Notices" are more interesting—they give rein to the imagination. "Lady Rowena Grey, of Ormiston, lost her fan on the way home from the performance at the Drury Lane Theater." "The Publisher begs to announce a poem—'Endymion'—written by Mr. John Keats." "On the Banks of the Thames, near Twickenham, a small, well-appointed Villa is to lease on reasonable Terms." "A Private Gentleman will lend all or Part of Five Hundred Pounds on proper Security." ”