New-York tribune., 1901-07-13

glfded about In close cropped wig, pound Dy
fillet solid band of gold her face all animation
and with witty word for everybody she
never told her age. and concealed ii very sue
cessfully.
Sir Charles was an inveterate punster, and,
for all her wit and humor, his wife neither cared
for nor understood his puns. She was consult
ing one day about getting new PACK
breadth for a velvet dress, and complaining that
it was so expensive. Not at all, my dear, sald
her husband the cheapest thing there is' a0I
when ii is old il looks as If it We're sat in we
all laughed but she repeated Satin, satln,
don't understand" They were most attached
couple, and she often used to eXclaim, L am
very distinguished woman'-a murmur OF pohte
acquiescence from the COMPANY am a htera-
ry woman with good husband Each hau an
appreciative admiration of the powers OF the
other Sir Charles highly cultivated man
and a very good writer. Lady Morgans soclai
brilliancy led TO the claims of her HUSBAND neing
overlooked by the "polloi, though he was far
from commonplace
Toward the end of her life Lady Morgan's eye
sight failed. and helped her with her Passages
from NV Autobiography.' copying and writing
to her dictation. On one occasion happened 10
make Latin quotation. us that LatlnF sne
said Put in that. put in that. Make the sruei
thick and slab" After her death. with her niece
Sydney 1 vert through all Sir Charles's and
her letters before their marriage with view TO
their publication. The letters were dehghtful,
but decided against giving them TO the
world: half century ago there was greater
reticence in such matters than there is now, and
the private letters of celebrated people were
held more sacred. / remember TO this day one
of his which was long and impassioned lament
at her absence he being at BarCn'S Court with
Lord and Lady Abercorn, while she was anus
ing herself I'm Dublin, where he was a little jeal-
of her Irritation and entreating her in NOV
ing terms to come back quickly. Her answer TO
the pathetic appeal began, Well am coming,
you wretchi'
wALPoLESs MISS BERRYs."
knew the Miss Berrys and went frequently TO
their house in Curzon-st. They always received
when they put candle in the window. They
offered you a dish of tea" and said Obleeged
and pronounced "Twickenham' "Twittenham';
but L never heard them damn the teapot when
it burned their fingers as 1 have seen it stated
in some lately published memoirs They roUged
it was part of their dress, having been indts-
pensable in their youth 1 never believed the
story of Horace Wapole's proposal: moral
though have it on her own authority in the
laudatory epitaph Miss Mary Berry composed on
herself, in which she describes herself of re
markable personal beauty and considerable
periority of intellect"-could I understand
why she stood upon much higher a pedestal
than did her sister. though she had fine regular
features TO the last. The epithet of "Elderberry
and Gooseberry' often applied to them, seemed
to me altogether unjust to Miss Agnes.
MEETING soUTHEY AT DINNER.
1 must have been very young not more than
fourteen fifteen. when my father took me to
my first dinner party; the occasion was a special
one. to meet Southey and Wordsworth; the lat
ter was an old friend, but my father had never
met Southey. l was placed by him at dinner,
and had good opportunity of judging of his
noted taciturnity, for he never spoke word.
We hyd some roast mutton. and dish of laver
stood before me: those were the days of side
dishes. and I silver epergnes with artificial
flowers in them. NV father held to be
something of gourmet. and I not his
daughter for nothing after waiting few
moments to see II it would be handed round,
helped myself to some Of the laver frcn the
dish before Then SCTthey spoke: Young
lady. am glad to that you appreciate laver;
give me some" l did So and he relapsed into
silence. which remained uneFOken till the end of
the meal Some time later my father met
Southey at Lord I.onsdaies and wrote 10 me of
his silecce comparing it with WOrdsworth's con-
versaticn, the richest / have known II is in
teresting to me TO have this appreciation OF my
fathers upon Wordsworth's conversation, when
he numbered among his friends such men as
Macintosh. Sydney Smith. and many others of
the hest takers of the day.
When Sydney Smith wrote of Sir James Mack
intosh. His memory, vast it was. he used
so as - make 1t delight and instruction to his
hearers. instead Of making it the dreadful en-
sine Of co'loQuial torture into whicn we have
sometimes seen IL erected" the latter words
referred t. Macaulay who sometimes talked
Sydney Smith down ard the allUsion was
recognized BY all who knew them. When
Macau,ay i'll With qunsy. Sydney Smith |
who had been 10 inquire after his health. !
told us he was suffering most from suppressed
minutes, the patient felt greatly relieved"
also remember old Lord Lansdowne's remark
that he wished he were as "cocksure about any
thing as Tom Macaulay was about everything"
MAN WHO SAW POPE.
OF all my many iterestlng dinner parties.
must haze beer souctr.rS of favprite with the
old man, for have lad the honor - dining with
him when MIR. Luttreil sCd 1 We're the only
guests PerhaUs 1 lst|,.sd most breath
lessly to conversation on anOCher occasion be-
tween one of his guess and Mr. Rogers about
Pope. His guest asked If IL that he
had seen Pope? Mr.. RCgsrs repliC| that il was
impossible. but that ne had met II who had
often seen him. lie had once been down 10
TwicksDhdm WIKI. his friend Mr. BodGiuston,
ana willie cr1Ssiag the ferry he had pointed out
Pope's villa "a hiI.;; upon ttis the ferryuIah
marked that tE@ villa had been mu h altered
since Mr. Alexander Pope's time. SO they had
fallen into conversation. ard the man In reply
10 Mr. Rogers's question whether he reTneM-
bered Mr.. Pope said he mensbered hira well:
Mir. Alexander Pope''--with n stress on the
AleSander--"uSed to cone down most DAYS for
a row in my fathers boat 1 was a lad then
and helped my father. When the weather was
bad. he would be bruugh. down In his sedan
chair-fGr he was a delicate gentleman; chair
and al would be put in the boat. ard he sat in
II while we rowed him up and down" Cannot
one see hin--thC little hunchhacked delicate
gentleman locking out frcE his chair on the sill
very Thanies--Inore silVery then than now at
Twickerf am Reach--ss he took his solitary air.
irg, despite bad weat ther up ard down?