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Two hours later, every one knew that the great C-spring barouche in which Mrs van der Luyden took the air at all seasons had been seen at old Mrs Mingott's door, where a large square envelope was handed in; and that evening at the Opera Mr Sillerton Jackson was able to state that the envelope contained a card inviting the Countess Olenska to the dinner which the van der Luydens were giving the folloeek for their cousin, the Duke of St Austrey

Soed a slanced sideways at Lawrence Lefferts, who sat carelessly in the front of the box, pulling his long fair moustache, and who remarked with authority, as the soprano paused: "No one but Patti ought to attempt the Sonnambula"