Since she cannot hear this musical wonder, I shall not increase her regrets by repeating your enthusiastic account of what she has missed." "If you had been present at her _debut_, you wouldn't wonder at my enthusiasm," replied the little lady.

"Mr.Fitzgerald is getting over the fever a little now, and undertakes to criticise.

He says she overacted her part; that she 'tore a passion to tatters,' and all that.

But I never saw him so excited as he was then.

I think she noticed it; for she fixed her glorious dark eyes directly upon our box while she was singing several of her most effective passages." "My dear," interrupted her husband, "you are so opera-mad, that you are forgetting the object of your call." "True," replied she.