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After another gentleman had been appointed louboutinsBaber's successor, the trustees of the Museum re¬commended Cary to the Government for a pension, ¡ªwhich they seemed resolved not to grant; and I made more than one earnest application to them in his behalf. At last Lord Melbourne sent Lord E. to me with a message that " there was very little money to dispose of, but that Cary should have 100/. per annum." I replied that " it was so small a sum, that I did not choose to mention the offer to Cary ; and thatchaussures louboutin, as soon as Sir Robert Peel came into office, I should apply to him for a larger sum, with confident hopes of better success." Lord Mel¬bourne then let me know that £ary should have 200/. a-year; which I accepted for him. Cary never forgave me for my conduct in the Museum business; and never afterwards called upon me. But I met him one day in the Park, when he said (much to his credit, considering his decided poli¬tical opinions) that " he was better pleased to receive 200/. a-year from Lord Melbourne than double the sum from Sir Robertchaussures christian louboutin Peel."
Visiting Lady one day, I made inquiries about her sister. " She is now staying with me," answered Lady ¡ª¡ª, " but she is unwell in conse¬quence of a fright which she got on her way from Richmond to London." At that time omnibuses were great rarities; and while Miss was coming to town, the footman, observing an omnibus approach, and thinking that she might like to see it, suddenly called in at the louboutin soldescarriage-window, " Ma'am, the om¬nibus!" Miss, being unacquainted with the term, and not sure but an omnibus might be a wild beast escaped from the Zoological Gardens, was thrown into a dreadful state of agitation by the an¬nouncement. I think Sheridan Knowles by far the best writer of plays since those whomlouboutin pas cher we call our old dramatists. ¡ªMacready's performance of Tell (in Knowles's William Tell) is first-rate. No actor ever affected me more than Macready did in some scenes of that play. Words cannot do justice to Theodore Hook's talent for improvisation : it was perfectly wonderful.