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Sir Charles has such beautiful ways; he goes to a house where single young ladies reside and a lover for each always happens in; then he immediately gives them five thousand pounds and they are married immediately.
All those, however, who were married previously are found quarrelling; these he reconciles and gives them three thousand pounds.
These comments on American girls would hardly have been made in our changed days:
Just now we are staying a few days with my newly married niece.
The gossip of her young lady acquaintances fills me with renewed dismay at the contemplation of young ladies' lives, especially those who have had what are called “advantages.”
Girls talk folly enough to young men, but nothing to what they talk to each other.
Joyfully I turn to Harriet Hosmer the sculptor.
Mr. Higginson often got a good deal of entertainment as well as discomfort out of his lecture or preaching trips.
... We reached
Norwich at nine and took the steamer; and here, better still, appeared
Henry Ward Beecher.
I sat by him and read “Bleak house” in the cabin, and at last, when he moved to go to bed, I introduced or recalled myself to him. “Oh, yes,” said he heartily, “bless your soul, I remember you” ; and so we talked until twelve o'clock: chiefly about
Wasson and churches generally.
He defended pews (to
