The Queen Also
Stood, And At The End Gave Three Curtsies.
On Friday Captain and
Mrs. Wormeley, with Miss Wormeley, dined with us, with Mr. and Mrs.
Carlyle, Miss Murray, the Maid of Honor, Mr. and Mrs. Pell of New
York, with William T. and Mr. Brodhead.
William was very glad to
see Carlyle, who showed himself off to perfection, uttering his
paradoxes in broad Scotch.
Last evening we dined at Mr. Thomas Baring's, and a most agreeable
dinner it was. The company consisted of twelve persons, Lord and
Lady Ashburton, etc. I like Lady Ashburton extremely. She is full
of intelligence, reads everything, talks most agreeably, and still
loves America. She is by no means one of those who abjure their
country. I have seen few persons in England whom I should esteem a
more delightful friend or companion than Lady Ashburton, and I do
not know why, but I had received a different impression of her.
Lord Ashburton, by whom I sat at dinner, struck me as still one of
the wisest men I have seen in England. Lady Ashburton, who was
sitting by Mr. Bancroft, leant forward and said to her husband, "WE
can bring bushels of corn this year to England." "Who do you mean
by WE?" said he. "Why, we Americans, to be sure."
Monday Evening
Yesterday we dined at Count St. Aulair's, the French Ambassador, who
is a charming old man of the old French school, at a sort of
amicable dinner given to Lord and Lady Palmerston.
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