The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-17 00:00:00

FauaL's Supaxma.

Yost of the eyes in the room and time of Kau sod
Lord George amongst b. outaler, mese on Lady Emily
as she rose from the instrument.

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" You do not ploy Mrs. Meriton 1" she mid to Felicia.
" Nor sing r
" I siag."
Lord A— sprang up inotoolly from her ode.
'Yon stag Mrs. Martian! Lady Emily, Lady A—
will accompany you."
"Oh, my sister will acoompany me if lam wished to
Mat"
"May I ask her?" and be crowd the room to where
Hate sat • speetetrem sad andantes of what had passed.
"Mrs. Menton will sing if you will play an wampum-
meat for her. WM you do mo I May lan ray axis?"
Kate rossimmediataly ofoonoso, oolouring deeply,bow.
ever. sad with • greater inward releothoos than she had
ever fah. I know not why the felt Ms Modena. Lib
bad no Dormouse« on bar own &111001111 i sod was, I seed
not say, obsoletely superior to aay jealousy of the snag-
nifiseat singing of Felicia. Ithe shrunk, I think, from
the port of satoaishamat thal sea 111011114 Gould riot
but ocosaloo. alte remembered perhaps the alnico* tin-
tt:nt surprise with which It bad hewn Int baud in
n family etre* and tat rather than thought that
something of the same surprise was about to be expo-
rimmed by others.
"Kate." sold 7011 310, not • fold of whose velvet robe
made the least movement he rise, "you most dad some.
thing I can sing."
The air, not ethelly the meaner but the air, there is
• &demote, of Lord A—, wu ordisiarily • little cold—
s little supercilious, but it maid become more animated
and dafereatial when musk was in question. Hate had
observed that it did so oa the ponosous emoting when
Mill Whyte Bampfylde sang, and she observed that it
did so now.

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" This oablnet, Mies Marlton," be said to her, "I. full
of opera.; your's is a valuable power. Ido not know
one that satiety sboold be and is more grateful to.
Allow me —it is, perhaps, looked. Ran your eye.,..
Wm," the books, be lomat, "they have the 11•111111 of
the composers on the bias.'
It was, perhaps, Kates meoßsetion of the evening on
which she had pait heard Felicia deg, that emulated
her eye to z itself for a moutest almost involuntarily
is one book of the number.

" Doolsetti," said Lord A—, "Ethan I take It down
tor you r
Kate said, "Thank you,' and Lord A— did take
it down, and placed it on ti desk of the piano. Tben
Patent roes sad approached ties instrument.

The other gentlemen apprombed it nowise. eir
Jams Windsor, with his e75-ghes. r. Ham* wish
his undeveloped mils, Lord George alone remised
wadi in the sem plane when he had Ma balding to
Nets. The Utter fell herself colouring MM. and Mete
&Moir. le,td; Mar, Its•hor played her own mom-
Puliemele, had Whet stood bsweeE nor required oilman
to stood; end Lord George had said that she sang as he
liked to bear • lady sing. Thom 'wm something more
theetrieel, Late nervowsly funded, about Felicta's
Midi& and height. the length sad lithllllllll6lollo6 Of
her velvet robs, her maim sod her lore white
arms. It was Dammam however, for Kate to turn
bet attention from oil Ws, to the osog before her. It
woo cm of those in the omit el "
She played Um few ham of piled., sad mi. tit..
wmaderfel solos mode themselves beard, sad Los.
thought abs knew bow Me must afforest mullion
most be looking.
Whether Lay Emily's mice 41 Ma DO Ito beet or
not, Fslicia's certainly woes.. Eats bad mover board
her sings. well—newer, perhaps, assent ones or twins
in asered music with S. NUdusay. Lienslly there was
not only in the maassr, bid in the very toms of bet
lasing, ail rebates.» that deradad from Its power
over i. imeglarioa. It vu sot 10 to-night. To-
night there vi. pathos, • tmedornms in her solos
roaroaly ocoser oerhl4n, to tho Intieh--st any rats. not
ordinarily Lwetoped ad of it, sad KM ibot
proadute feliata's own. Kate Mem almost agid
b....au to listening; and et the sonolasion of the song,
was content to remain in apparent oontimplation of the
book before her, instead of burn to receive any
rear rewired to the performers, sod • portion
whisk sba no very lady wadded to share.'

We think Mrs. Oluiden's style of wriand bier
idiom are really good. Ihr Ameba of hiih life are
admirable— for instance thlvenicart. It Is a meet
perfectly painted picture, brilliant in all its bats,
whet Is ecury detail.
We manoe give se many utilises from this work
se we should like, bat we esneestly reomatasai oar
roam to peruse it. They emboli find anywhere •
work mom agreeable, pleseent, or sraming. It Is
the kind of-book to take sad reed as the mad e.
Viriqubo2tla on • essimer evening, and, eu w-
there is • great deal &boat that %kW,'
=
is the corsl; er imet, Me •••• _.‘g• "smug
iwkilais'e./roesry .roode by • bobbling
it is quite refeeshis- • beck COO 4.07. rosdiag,
saw idelow" Mid locis is Into SOU lifs and
&labor- wv seays only lams She ts/eated
r• .4 may be Isthmoid to give the paths ascilwer
4 bwr graceful sad Aerating composilien