own, from the carriage to the house.
I was greatly confused and a little frightened, as well as amused
and gratified, by their cordial demonstration.

The humors of a Dublin audience, much as I had heard of them before
going to Ireland, surprised and diverted me very much. The second
night of our acting there, as we were leaving the theater by the
private entrance, we found the carriage surrounded by a crowd
eagerly waiting for our coming out. As soon as my father appeared,
there was a shout of "Three cheers for Misther Char-_les!_" then
came Dall, and "Three cheers for Misthriss Char-_les!_" then I, and
"Three cheers for Miss Fanny!" "Bedad, she looks well by
gas-light!" exclaimed one of my admirers. "Och, and bedad, she
looks well by daylight too!" retorted another, though what his
opportunity for forming that flattering opinion of the genuineness
of my good looks had been, I cannot imagine. What further remarks
passed upon us I do not know, as we drove off laughing, and left
our friends still vociferously cheering. My father told us one day
of his being followed up Sackville Street by two beggar-women,
between whom the following dialogue passed, evidently with a view
to his edification: "Och, but he's an iligant man, is Misther
Char-_les_ Kemble!" "An' 'deed, so was his brudher Misther John,
thin--a moighty foine man! and to see his _demanour_, puttin' his
hand in his pocket and givin' me sixpence, bate all the worrld!"
When I was acting Lady Townley, in the scene where her husband
complains of her late hours and she insolently retorts, "I won't
come home till four, to-morrow morning," and receives the startling
reply with which Lord Townley leaves her, "Then, madam, you shall
never come home again," I was apt to stand for a moment aghast at
this threat; and one night during this pause of breathless dismay,
one of my gallery auditors, thinking, I suppose, that I was wanting
in proper spirit not to make some rejoinder, exclaimed, "Now thin,
Fanny!" which very nearly upset the gravity produced by my father's
impressive exit, both in me and in the audience.

DUBLIN, Friday, August 6, 1830.
MY DEAREST H----,

I fear I caused you a disappointment by not writing to you
yesterday afternoon, but as it was not u