e., two or
three married daughters and their belongings; one of the children
beats Magnay's 'Carina' as to beauty--he ought to paint her. Happy
thought, send him and pretty Mrs. Esperance down here on spec. He
can paint the child for the next Academy, and meantime I could enjoy
his company. Well, all these good folks being just set-to at roast
beef, I naturally wouldn't hear of disturbing them, and in the end
was obliged to sit down too and eat at that hour of the day the
hugest dinner you ever saw--anything but voracious appetites
offended the hostess. Magnay's future model, for all its angelic
face, 'ate to repletion,' like the fair American in the story. Then
I went into my father's room, and shortly after he woke up and asked
me to give him some Friedrichshall water, making no comment at all
on my return, but just behaving as though I had been here all the
autumn, so that I felt as if the whole affair were a dream. Except
for this attack of jaundice, he has been much as usual, and when you
next come down you will find us settled into our old groove. The
quiet of it after London is extraordinary.
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