Reminiscences of Foreign Travel. a Fragment of Autobiography
Reminiscences of Foreign Travel. a Fragment of Autobiography
Robert Charles Winthrop
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He has a wonderful faculty of description ; but the difficulty is, the things are not worth describing ! " And then Mr. Adams launched out into unbounded praise of Fielding, saying that there was no novel like " Tom Jones. " One day — it was Saturday — while Dickens was in Washington, Mr. Adams turned to me and said, " I want you to do me a favor, Mr. Winthrop. You, I know, do not go to dinners, and I do not give them, on Sundays. But Mr. Dickens, having refused my invitation for a dinner next ...week, has written to say that he wishes the privilege of coming to luncheon with his wife to-morrow at two o'clock. Now, I have no idea of meeting him alone, and I want you and Mr. Saltonstall to come to my aid. " So we both went at the hour named. Mrs. Adams had ordered an elaborate lunch, and courses were served as for a dinner. Mr. OF AUTOBIOGEAPHY. 6 o and Mrs. Dickens not only came late, but before the meats had been finished, said they must go home and dress for a dinner at the house of a translator in the State Department ; and the table of the Ex-President was broken up accordingly !
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