“This familiar ‘Diable!’ from such majestic loftiness, had a very droll effect.
“‘Et vous, Signora, l’avez-vous entendue?’
“‘O que non!’ answered she, quite bluffly; ‘cela n’est pas possible!’
“And we were alarmed to observe that she looked highly affronted; though we could not possibly conjecture why, till Signor Colla, in a whisper, represented the error of the inquiry, by saying, that two first singers could never meet.
“‘True!’ Dr. Maty cried; ‘two suns never light us at once.’
“The Signora, to whom this was repeated in Italian, presently recovered her placid dignity by the blaze of these two suns; and, before she went away, was in such perfect amity with il Signor Dottore, that she voluntarily declared she would come again, when her sore throat was over, and chanter comme il faut.”
CONCERT.—EXTRACT THE THIRD.
“My dear Mr. Crisp,
“My father, now, bids me write for him—which I do with joy and pride, for now, now,thus instigated, thus authorised, let me present to you the triumphant, the unique Agujari!