146/268 Is it true, really, that you think to exhibit in London Penini's portrait at the piano, as Sophie Eckley tells me? And there are quantities of people here to choose from. I have not taken heart and 'an evening for reception' yet, but we have had '_squeezes_' of more or less stringency. Miss Ogle is here--and her family, of course, for she is young--the author of 'A Lost Love,' that very pretty book; and she is natural and pleasing. |