And then all the company sang the national anthem with national independence--each for himself, without reference to the other--and finally separated: all declaring that they never had spent so pleasant an evening: and Miss Martin inwardly resolving to adopt the advice of Mr.Jennings Rodolph, and to 'come out' without delay.
Now, 'coming out,' either in acting, or singing, or society, or facetiousness, or anything else, is all very well, and remarkably pleasant to the individual principally concerned, if he or she can but manage to come out with a burst, and being out, to keep out, and not go in again; but, it does unfortunately happen that both consummations are extremely difficult to accomplish, and that the difficulties, of getting out at all in the first instance, and if you surmount them, of keeping out in the second, are pretty much on a par, and no slight ones either--and so Miss Amelia Martin shortly discovered.

It is a singular fact (there being ladies in the case) that Miss Amelia Martin's principal foible was vanity, and the leading characteristic of Mrs.Jennings Rodolph an attachment to dress.

Dismal wailings were heard to issue from the second-floor front of number forty-seven, Drummond-street, George-street, Euston-square; it was Miss Martin practising.
Half-suppressed murmurs disturbed the calm dignity of the White Conduit orchestra at the commencement of the season.

It was the appearance of Mrs.Jennings Rodolph in full dress, that occasioned them.

Miss Martin studied incessantly--the practising was the consequence.