Travels of Anna Bishop in Mexico. 1849 (1852) (14755046556)

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Title: Travels of Anna Bishop in Mexico. 1849
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Bishop, Anna Rivière, 1814-1884 Deal, Charles, pub
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : C. Deal
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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tscreaming mirth, obliging Bochsa, in his perspiringdistress, to repeat the march, ere she could pos-sibly compose herself to undertake the sediziosivoci ! It subsequently appeared that the Druids, duringthe overture, concluded that, in their double capa-city of escarte and Mexican militaries, they couldnot, with propriety, present themselves before thepublic without their accustomed arms, by night aswell as by day. This they not only thought wasperfectly right but added wonderfully to theirgeneral a2)pearance. And the best of the jokewas, that few of the audience perceived the ana-chronistic error, but rather seemed to think thatthe arms and Mexican colors, relieved uj) by whitecalico, had an effect they had rarely seen sm-j)ass-ed on any stage. After a third concert, quite as gratifying to theartists as the two preceding ones, Anna wasprevailed upon to remain until after the fair—whither the leading residents of the city had, ac-cording to custom, repaired—and then to resume her
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^^/^^) ANNA IN MEXICO. 259 performances. By that time, too, Bochsas oldlady would have arrived, if not broken to pieces,and there was no little anxiety to hear the famousharpist of Napoleon. Besides, the weather, al-though at the extreme end of iN^ovember, was as de-lightful as an Italian May; and Annas palo.zio was,all in all, as delicious a retreat from her fatiguesand excitement as she could well desire. Andthen, a very select and agreeable society of ladiesand gentlemen were always mtx jpetis soins tomake her happy, and she saw no reason whyshe should nt be. Consequently, she remained,visiting with Bochsa all the public buildings anddriving out every day to the Paseo in the bigPompadour coach, to the great, but very good-natured, merriment of her friends, its rough ropeharness and the piles of old scrapes, covering upthe true state of the saddles of Don Alvarado andDon Mariano, contrasting forcibly with the lightelegance of the foreign vehicles and richly-capari-soned steeds of th