New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-30

forbid suppeds p hS hed it till took it, with an
odd OF absent cOmplaisance he w4S s,Stsar Wrs
eomcal after supper ana op near an hour after
| IhIale and me 10 go 10 Dou AOA "N~N
| we made the motion.
| At an evening party in London. where the very
walls of the room seemed to echo with applause VI
the novelist. she met Sheridan for the nrst t'lo'
who at once began to pay his court after the ap-
| proved fashion of the day.
| Irs+ then the door opened and Mr.: Sheridan en- en-
| tered Was not in luck Not that oelieHe Vh ne
| meeting was accidental; but had more Wlsneo "
meet him and his wife than any people Kno" not;
| MIR Sheridan has very fine figure ana 9 t Iii
| though don't think handsome race ~ nddresss
and very upright, and his appearance ana auu ~!
| Are at once manly and fashionable, Wltnou' VIZ 10
smallest tinciure of fOppery or modlsn gTaces' o az
| short like him vastly, and think blm every WY
Sort5v lie beautiful Companion. Aud let me tell
Won what know Will give you as mtlcn pIgaeuo So
it gave methat by all cond observe IN t1g ey are
e1tremey happy IN each other; he evidently adoIess
| her and She as evidently idol,zes him. The worlu
na WIEN next there was fat-tat Sir Joshua Rey
| noids and DR. Warton entered And now must tel
You little conversation which did noV ESar ny
self till came home; it was between MI. Sherluau
and NV father. "Dr Burney," cried the former,
"Layo Won no older daughtersi Can this possibly
be the authOress Of Evelinap ana tneF nc S' ~
abundance of fine things, and begged my father 10
"Why, it viii be very formidable thing to her"
| answered he, " to he introduced TO you''
"Well then, by-and-by," returned he.
"Some time after this, nv eyes happening to
meet his. he waived the ceremony OF ltr9mmct'mTT'
and in n low voice said 81 have been telling Dr.
| Bumcv that have long expected to see IN MISS
Burney lady of the Gravest appearance WIN SnS
quickest parts %9s address, as among ali my
| numerous buffers the name OF Sheridnn pas never
reached me, and did really imagine he haq never
make no verbal answer, and he proceeded then to
speak of EveliDa" in terms OF the nlghest pIasei
Int was in such ferment of surprise mot 70 say
Lila hat
| EXPRESSIONS I only remember telling him that
| was much amazed he had spared time 20 reau ~
| and that he repeatedly called it most surprising
| hook: and some time after he added: But nope,
Miss Burney, you don't intend to throw away your
penw .,, .o,,o oorO cir y said "wbat Won
saw. for Won know not what weight 1t may have"
He wished it might have any, he SAID anu soon
after urned again TO my father. o,,,
protest since the appreciation or the Streatnan-
ties / have met with none so hattering to me as
thus of Mr.. Sheridan, and so very unexpected.
Among the incidents of her Court life which she
dwells upon with fond recollection" are her con-
yersations with the King. who seems to have en-
loved her society, and almost to have made her his
contdant In general they relate to subjects of not
very high and mighty import, and had not q king
been one of the lnterlocutors, the world would not
have greatly suffered from their suppression. We
give one of them as specimen
After dinner while Mrs. Delany was left alone, rs
usual TO take little rest-for sleep IT but seldom
proves-Mr. B. Dewes, his little daughter MISS Port
and myself went into the drawing room. And here,
while to pass the time, was amusing the httle
| girl with teaching her some Christmas games, IN
which her father and cousin Joined, Mrs. Delany
| came in. We were all in the middle of the room,
and in some confusion for she had but just come
| up to us to inquire what was going forward. ana
| was disentanglng myself from Miss Dewes. to be
ready to nv any knocked at the streetdoor.
| when the door of the drawing-room was again
| opened, and large man. IN deep mouInIing, ap-
peared at it. entering and shutting it himself with
Ou A Ghost could not moro have scared me- when
| discovered by its glitter on the black, star The
general disorder had prevented his being seen, eX-
cept BY myself, who was always on the watch, I'll
| Miss p, turning round. exclaimed. " The King !
| @ mercyI Thought /, that were but out of the
| room which way shall escape 7 and how pass him
he entered, in the roomI Every ono scampered ont
of the way; MISS P, to stand next the door J
Mr. Bernard Dewes to corner opposite It. his ut T.
| meet his Majesty, who, after quietly lOok king on
till she saw him, approached and inquired how she
had nov retreated to the wall, and purpCsed
gliding softly. though speedily out of the r9om but
%bsper T to Mrs DeianS, said Is that Miss Bur
| neyfn-and on her answering, Yes, sir" he bowed,
and with countenance of the most perfect good
humor, came close up to me. :
A most profound reverence on my part arrested
| the progress of my intended retreat " How long
have you been come bacK, Miss BurneyT Two
UnIuckily he did not hear me- and repeated, his
| uuestion and whether the second time he heard me
or not don't know, but he made little civil i'm
| clinatiOn of his head, and went back to Mrs.
He insisted she should sit down, though he stood
himself, and began TO give her an account OF the
Princess Elizabeth, who once again was recovering,
| and trying, at present JameSs Powders. She bad
bSode ne Sad os Twelve %9S IN oS SS ~
blood besides undergoing blisterlng and other dis
cipne. He spoke of her illness With the strongest
| emotion and seemed quite hlled Win concern 1or
| her danger and BufferingB.
Mrs. Delany next inquired for the younger chill
dren. They had all. he sald, the whooping-oouSh'
"Not,0 added he, for any other reason than
change of air for themselves though am pretty
| certain have never had the dstemper myself. and
the Queen thinks has not had 1t either we shall
| take our chance. When the two eldest had 1t,
sent them away, and would not see them nll 1t was
over but now there so many OF them that there
would be no end to separations, 80 let 1t take it,
course"
Mrs. Delany expressed good deal Of concern OF
his running this risk, but he laughed at It, and said
he was much more afraid of catching the heuma-
tism, which has been threatening one OF his shout
ders lately: However, he ADDED heshould hunt the
a good deal Of talk then followed about bis OWL
| health and the extreme temperance by which he
preserved it. The fault OF his constitution, he said,
was tendency to excessive tai, which he kept how
ever in order by the most vigorous exercise and the
| When Mrs. Delany was beginning to praise bis
torbearance, he stopped her.
mo no." he cried, otis virtue only prefer
eating plain and little, to growing diseased and in
firm" 80
During this discourse, stood quietly in the place
where he had first spoken TO me. His quitting me
so soon and cOnversng freely and easily with Mrs.
Delany, proved 80 delightful q relief to me, that
| no longer wished myself away and the moment my
first panic from the surprise was over, diverted
myself with Thousand ridiculous notions Of my own
situation.
The King went up to the table, and looked at a
book OF prints, from Claude Lorraine. which had
been brought down for Miss Doves ; but Mrs. De-
| lany by mistake, told him they were for me. He
turHed over a leaf or two and then said" Pray,
, does Miss Burney draw, too % The too was pro.
nOunced very civily. % believe not, sir" an
swered Mrs. Deany of least. she does not tell"
. "OhP cried he, laughing, that's nothingl She
IS not apt to tell she never does tell, you know
| Her father told me that himself lie told me the