Eliza’s Daughter (2013)
“As to that, said I, opinions might differ, but I had a trained voice and could sing, and had given public recitals in Bath.
I waited for her to divulge her purpose in approaching me.
‘Well,’ explained Mrs Widdence, ‘in that very ungenteel, low-class establishment as calls itself Tivoli, run by a woman who has the sauce to style herself Madame Deloraine, though to my certain knowledge she’s no more Madame and no more Deloraine than that spittoon; plain Jane Higgs she was born in Hackney ...– ’ She paused to catch her breath. I recalled a very superior-looking modiste which I had passed in Bond Street the previous afternoon. Tivoli was the name on the gilded sign.
‘– In that place,’ continued Mrs Widdence, ‘they gives musical entertainments. Young ladies playing on the harp and fiddle. To amuse the customers, you know, and ’tice folk in from the street.’ Now, of course, I could see whither she was steering, but chose to remain politely blank until she had explained herself further.MoreLess
I waited for her to divulge her purpose in approaching me.
‘Well,’ explained Mrs Widdence, ‘in that very ungenteel, low-class establishment as calls itself Tivoli, run by a woman who has the sauce to style herself Madame Deloraine, though to my certain knowledge she’s no more Madame and no more Deloraine than that spittoon; plain Jane Higgs she was born in Hackney ...– ’ She paused to catch her breath. I recalled a very superior-looking modiste which I had passed in Bond Street the previous afternoon. Tivoli was the name on the gilded sign.
‘– In that place,’ continued Mrs Widdence, ‘they gives musical entertainments. Young ladies playing on the harp and fiddle. To amuse the customers, you know, and ’tice folk in from the street.’ Now, of course, I could see whither she was steering, but chose to remain politely blank until she had explained herself further.MoreLess
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