[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from June 10 (reply #10.)

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from June 6 (reply #3.)]

June 15. Dined with Ellie yesterday at Mrs. Georgey Peter’s and went with her and Dr. Carroll to the Academy of Music for I Puritani; prima donna, the very distinguished amateur, Mme. de Ferussac (Colonel Thorne’s daughter). We expected a crowd and a grand excitement, but on entering our box – very late – twenty minutes behind time, we found two-thirds of the front boxes empty, and the parquette sparsely sprinkled with people, rari nantes in gurgite vasto.

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