Siddons might have studied for a
performance of Clytemnestra, popped it back into the tureen.
(3) There was an alarm of fire on an emigrant ship in mid-ocean when
I was going to New Zealand and the women rushed aft with faces as in
a Massacre of the Innocents.
The Wrath to Come
On the Monte Generoso a lady who sat next me at the table-d'hote was
complaining of a man in the hotel. She said he was a nuisance
because he practised on the violin. I excused him by saying that I
supposed some one had warned him to fly from the wrath to come,
meaning that he had conceptions of an ideal world and was trying to
get into it. (I heard a man say something like this many years ago
and it stuck by me.)
The Beauties of Nature
A man told me that at some Swiss hotel he had been speaking
enthusiastically about the beauty of the scenery to a Frenchman who
said to him:
"Aimez-vous donc les beautes de la nature? Pour moi je les abborre."
The Late King Vittorio Emanuele
Cavaliere Negri, at Casale-Monferrato, told me not long since that
when he was a child, during the troubles of 1848 and 1849, the King
was lunching with his (Cav. Negri's ) father who had provided the
best possible luncheon in honour of his guest. The King said:
"I can eat no such luncheon in times like these--give me some
garlic."
The garlic being brought, he ate it along with a great hunch of
bread, but would touch nothing else.
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