.MTA3Mg.NzI1NTQ: Difference between revisions
(Created page with "new state house now building after the design of W. Strickland being a tasteful & correct piece of architecture of white limestone & when completed will cost near a million do...") |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
new state house now building after the design of W. Strickland being a tasteful & correct piece of architecture of white limestone & when completed will cost near a million dollars -- At Mr [ | new state house now building after the design of W. Strickland being a tasteful & correct piece of architecture of white limestone & when completed will cost near a million dollars -- At Mr [[F?]]'s I spent the evening enjoying the domestic comedy in which Mrs [[F?]] & her daughter enacted the principal character. Mrs [[F?] is a lady of sixty who apparently desires to make herself excessively agreeable & supposes herself to possess "great conversational powers" & to be highly "intellectual" & perfectly au fait in all the maneuvers & [[blank space]] of fashionable life having been frequently to Washington & [[left margin possibly missing words]] xxx looking forward to seeing her husband a political "magnifico"---she wears a turban & displays a great extent of forehead, or rather "front integument" from either side of which depends [[the? two?]] rusty coloured curl of some length, a scarf thrown over a rather low silk dress which hangs on a thin & "jerky" figure of commanding height with a large fan twirled by three fingers & a pair of net-[[unclear: nits?]] complete the external -- On entering, the lady makes an antediluvian curtsey & throws herself into a chair in a neglige tho'studied attitude, one foot being thrust slightly forward, the other withdrawn and the arms "contrasted" having "posed" a benignant smile graces the lower portion of her face & an intellectual spark is forced from her eyes - Her conver | ||
Latest revision as of 23:13, 12 October 2020
new state house now building after the design of W. Strickland being a tasteful & correct piece of architecture of white limestone & when completed will cost near a million dollars -- At Mr F?'s I spent the evening enjoying the domestic comedy in which Mrs F? & her daughter enacted the principal character. Mrs [[F?] is a lady of sixty who apparently desires to make herself excessively agreeable & supposes herself to possess "great conversational powers" & to be highly "intellectual" & perfectly au fait in all the maneuvers & blank space of fashionable life having been frequently to Washington & left margin possibly missing words xxx looking forward to seeing her husband a political "magnifico"---she wears a turban & displays a great extent of forehead, or rather "front integument" from either side of which depends the? two? rusty coloured curl of some length, a scarf thrown over a rather low silk dress which hangs on a thin & "jerky" figure of commanding height with a large fan twirled by three fingers & a pair of net-unclear: nits? complete the external -- On entering, the lady makes an antediluvian curtsey & throws herself into a chair in a neglige tho'studied attitude, one foot being thrust slightly forward, the other withdrawn and the arms "contrasted" having "posed" a benignant smile graces the lower portion of her face & an intellectual spark is forced from her eyes - Her conver