Lady of the House by Charlotte Furness

Author:Charlotte Furness
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
ISBN: 9781526702760
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2018-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

My front room was as light as day, and the back room very pretty all pink muslin – flowers – and candles which prevented its getting too hot. My bedroom was converted into a very good assembly room with places for fifty people to sit down in, and my little dressing room with lights, flowers and the old blue divans all round it, into a very recherché boudoir. The two large rooms below were filled with little round supper tables, and all the flirtations went down together, to back their sentiment with soupe [sic] and entrées. They danced with such spirit till near six o’clock that Colinet said he was dead and could not play no more which did not grieve my tooth and me [at this time Harriet was suffering terribly with toothache]. You must forgive me if I puff as much as the Morning Post. I was very lucky in having out of 340, near a hundred excuses, which reduced me to a right size and they were almost all chaperones and married women, and the girls came in tribes with someone elderly41

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