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The Life, Letters and Table Talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon
The Life Letters and Table Talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon Author:Benjamin Robert Haydon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Original Publisher: Scribner, Armstrong and company Subjects: Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions Art / History / General Art / European Art / Individual Artist Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may... more » be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: To MISS MlTFORD. I saw Kean on Monday night. Since O. P. I never was in such an uproar. Not having any relish to let my chest-bone be pressed into my back-bone, I relinquished the pit, and, surveying the struggle for a moment, rushed to the boxes. Here, in my violent rush to get into the stream, I rudely squeezed a lady without meaning it. She was so enraged at the rudeness of everybody before and behind, and on each side of her, which was unavoidable from the pressure ; that, rendered furious, she actually, with her most delicate hand, belabored my back, swearing and scolding, which of course being conscious I deserved, I bore without a murmur, but felt highly honored, though concealing a hearty laugh at her feeble beating. Carriage after carriage came up, and it was a high treat to watch the confidence of old dowagers and their husbands come swarming in fresh from a carriage. After following their turbans, you would see their head-dresses whirled round, and a pair of fiery eyes darting upon them in despair Accidentally I met Talfourd, and he took me behind the scenes. Kean was agitated, and at intervals kept drinking brandy and water. He acted so finely once, that I could not help shaking his hand as he came off, though I disapprove his conduct. . . . Talfourd said he could not have shaken his hand. Perhaps he was right. But I could not resist his action ; besides, he was irritated at the howling of a palpable set of touters. To MIS...« less