Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . ting two of the ladies who entertained herin Northampton and they recalled for my benefitthe pleasure they had had in receiving thisguest from England. She was dressed, they said,in simple black silk, that afternoon she camefrom her rooms at the Round Hill House to drinktheir tea and present a letter given her by Mon-cure Conway, whom a cousin of their own hadmarried. It happened that they had ice-creamfor supper and her naive pleasure in this dish,which was then quite a delicacy, especially im
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . ting two of the ladies who entertained herin Northampton and they recalled for my benefitthe pleasure they had had in receiving thisguest from England. She was dressed, they said,in simple black silk, that afternoon she camefrom her rooms at the Round Hill House to drinktheir tea and present a letter given her by Mon-cure Conway, whom a cousin of their own hadmarried. It happened that they had ice-creamfor supper and her naive pleasure in this dish,which was then quite a delicacy, especially im-pressed itself on the mind of her hostess. Aftersupper Mrs. Gilchrist sang some quaint oldsongs very sweetly, and once, when Tennysonwas mentioned as a great poet, she saidquickly, Ah, but you have a much greaterone here in Walt Whitman. In his poem, Going Somewhere, writtenafter Mrs. Gilchrists death in 1885, Whitmancalls this ardent disciple of his his sciencefriend, and his noblest woman-friend. Butthe verse itself gives no hint of the great affec-tion which inspired this memory leaf for her.
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