La vie et les lettres de Washington Irving . J'ai arrêté, ats dans ahuff à l'autre chambre, et vit dans l'Alboni Somnambula,qu'elle a effectué à l'admiration. Sur un autre soir avant son départ, sentiment de manque d'cityamusement, écrit-il, je suis allé à Wallacks et vit l'oldplay de la route à la ruine, joué dans un excellent style. Il alsowent à un bal, où, bien qu'après l'opéra, il s'est trouvé parmi les premiers. Je pense qu'il, il écrit à un unmarriedniece, une des balles pleasantest J'ai été à pendant une longue période, dans la mesure où j'ai siégé toute la soirée sur un canapé à côté de N , dans la salle avant de

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The life and letters of Washington Irving . ats, I went off in ahuff to the other house, and saw Alboni in the Somnambula, which she performed to admiration. On another evening before his start, feeling in want of cityamusement, he writes, I went to Wallacks, and saw the oldplay of the Road to Ruin, played in excellent style. He alsowent to a ball, where, though after the opera, he found himself among the early ones. I think it, he writes to an unmarriedniece, one of the pleasantest balls I have been at for a long time, inasmuch as I sat all the evening on a sofa beside N , in the front room up stairs, where they received their guests, so as toleave the rooms down stairs free for the dancers. In this way Isaw a great part of the company in the course of the evening, without fatigue, and without going into the ballrooms to be crowded, and cramped, and kicked into a corner. Besides, he adds, witha touch of fun, the dances that are the fashion put me out ofcountenance, and are not such as a gentleman of my years ought to witness. 142. LIFE AND LETTERS OF WASHINGTON IRVING. 143 On the 17th he had reached Baltimore, as will appear by thefollowing letter :— [To Miss Catherine Irving, Sunny side. Baltimore, January 17, 1853., My Dear Kate :— In a letter to Sarah, I gave an account of my whereabouts andwhatabouts while in New York, last week, where I was detained beyondmy intended time by a snow-storm. I was rather in a humdrum moodduring my sojourn; and, although I had big dinners, gay balls, Italianoperas, and Banvards Diorama to entertain me, I would willingly havestolen back to my native plains, and given up the gay world, and allterrestrial joys. The last evening of my detention, however, the weatherand my dull humor cleared up; the latter, doubtless, under the influenceof Sontags charms, who, in the Daughter of the Regiment, looked, played, and sang divinely. The next morning proving bright and fair, I broke up my encamp-ment, and got down to the foot of Cortlandt Str

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