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sation is prodigiously animated a running [--left margin obscured]-fire of sentiment, the last review & [Bolman's?] French [unclear--phoebus?], her temperament she expects you to find poetic, but is evidently the study of elegant extracts, [unclear initials: N. I. ?] speaker, & the most approved topics of fashionable life - [unclear: Expansion? Extension? Exception?] is applied by means of peculiar motion of the foot & fan & the cheeks are thrown "in & out of gear" with wonderful facility, the same worn-smile being reproduced thereby. - She absorbs the conversation, indeed "she considers it her duty" to entertain the company, poor Mr [T? F? J?] says nothing but sits as an "accessory" in the background & plays with the children, Miss [T/F/J?} the young lady of - - - years is an evident pupil of her Ma to whom she looks with admiration & sympathies by look & foot motion, their fans match & they use them accordingly -- I bid farewell, giving mother & daughter [unclear word in quotation marks--"sexroom"?] for their genuflection which corresponded precisely & retired with Mr [T?F?] to the door who directed me to my hotel -- In riding to Nashville I saw a woman & child nearly exactly in the position of Raphael's "Madonna della sedia"--sitting at a cottage door -- also a rattle snake on the road side -- The Cumberland River winds between high cliffs of limestone, crowned with forests, which generally extend to the river's edge [left margin lost] are reflected with great distinctiveness in the clear water, especially at sunset hours. It is a beautiful stream who' small & difficult