This Name Sounded Rather Inauspicious, But Mr.
Winthrop Suggested That There Might Be A "Felix" To Qualify It, And
So In This Case It Turned Out.
Mrs. Grundy asserted that such a
thing had never been done, that it was a very dangerous precedent,
etc.
, But in the end the weight of a Maid of Honor and a Foreign
Minister prevailed, and we saw everything to much greater advantage
than if we had 150 persons following on, as Mr. Winthrop says he had
the other day at Windsor Castle. . . . On our way [home] we met Lady
Byron with her pretty little carriage and ponies. She alighted and
we did the same, and had quite a pleasant little interview in the
dusty road.
Sunday, May 30th
Your father left town on Monday. . . . He did not return until the
27th, the morning of the Queen's Birthday Drawing-Room. On that
occasion I went dressed in white mourning. . . . It was a petticoat
of white crape flounced to the waist with the edges notched. A
train of white glace trimmed with a ruche of white crape. A wreath
and bouquet of white lilacs, without any green, as green is not used
in mourning. The array of diamonds on this occasion was magnificent
in the highest degree, and everybody was in their most splendid
array. The next evening there was a concert at the Palace, at which
Jenny Lind, Grisi, Alboni, Mario, and Tamburini sang. I went
dressed in [a] deep black dress and enjoyed the music highly.
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