by an
intelligent, nay, an exacting, audience delighted almost to
tears--and yet not money enough in the house to pay expenses!
Indifference to flaming advertisements of precocity is well; but
it is _not_ well, not worthy of the taste of Boston thus to
neglect one of the finest manifestations of genius that ever
seemed to come to us so straight from heaven. It was one of the
most beautiful, most touching experiences of our whole musical
life, to see and hear that charming little maiden, so natural
and childlike, so full of sentiment and thought, so
selfpossessed and graceful in her whole bearing and in her every
motion, handle her instrument there like a master, drawing forth
tones of purest and most feeling quality; with an infallible
truth of intonation, unattained by many an orchestra leader;
reproducing perfectly, as if by the hearts own direct magnetic
agency, an entire Concerto of Viotti or De Beriot, wooing forth
the gentler melodies with a fine caressing delicacy and giving
out strong passages in chords with ever thrilling grandeur."

The first of these concerts was on the 8th and the second on the 12th of
the month. Neither was successful and evil days again came upon them.
The concert company broke up and each looked out for himself as best he
could. As for Camilla she returned to New York with her father and aunt
and they settled down in poor and miserable quarters in a house on
Howard street--the Rue Lamartine of New York.

Her reception in Boston had not been a pleasant one. There seemed to be
a prejudice against her. The good people could not quite forgive her for
being a girl. It was well for Paul Julian--he was a boy. Camilla's
appearance disturbed their nice sense of propriety. This is only the
more remarkable when we come to see that later in her life Boston became
her second home. It was here that she afterwards laid the foundation for
her reputation and here she won her greatest triumphs. Since, she has
played in our city over two hundred times and here her greatest and
latest artistic efforts have been made. Little did she think as she left
the city that she should afterwards enter it twice under most peculiar
circumstances and afterwards make it the home of her girlhood and
sometimes her residence in womanhood.

Heaven helps those who try to help themselves. It was useless to cry or
sit down in despair. Camilla at once resumed h