The life and professional career of Emma Abbott . dingly interesting, and the recollec-tions of that little journey and the brief stay among thosehonest, simple minded people were among her happiest ones. Many of the days of their sojourn in the French capital werespent by Miss Abbott and her companion in driving about theparks, on the boulevards, and in the vicinity of famous build-ings. Abbott loved Paris with something of the devotion shebore the metropolis of her native country, and almost everystreet, every building, hall of art or place of public entertain-ment, was to her a landmark, by
The life and professional career of Emma Abbott . dingly interesting, and the recollec-tions of that little journey and the brief stay among thosehonest, simple minded people were among her happiest ones. Many of the days of their sojourn in the French capital werespent by Miss Abbott and her companion in driving about theparks, on the boulevards, and in the vicinity of famous build-ings. Abbott loved Paris with something of the devotion shebore the metropolis of her native country, and almost everystreet, every building, hall of art or place of public entertain-ment, was to her a landmark, by which she in fancy retracedher steps along the old paths which were sometimes thornyand rough, sometimes rendered smooth by the love of friends,but from which she never turned back when duty bade herproceed. Those days and experiences, whether of pleasure or pain, sheloved to recall, and when in a reminiscent mood enlivened thehours of a long drive with their history. And no wonder sheloved them all, the bitter with the sweet, for those days of. Emma Abbott as Queen Anne. Absorbed in Study. - • tears and struggles were the stepping stones to her fame, and the foundations of her beautiful womanhood. The memory of times when she felt the need of money andfriends, made her kinder to others similarly situated, while thekindly criticism, words of encouragement and faith in herfuture, nerved her to greater efforts and higher aspirations. Sometimes on their long drives she would bury herself inher books, and so absorbed would she become in her aew roles,she would strike an attitude, and as she in fancy approachedthe climax of vocalization, forget her surroundings, and hervoice would ring out on high C in a manner startling to specta-tors and amusing to her companion. One day while 1\ hag backon her cushions with closed eyes and calm countenance, shesuddenly straightened herself, threw up her hands and screamed,•Judges; have mercy! betokening the fact that her wholebeing was absor
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