Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

TRAVELS IN AMERICA.
laugh at this curious regulation. Mr. said he was stopped
the other day on this account, and mightily offended the official
by saying he had forgotten to bring a yard measure with him, but
would hang it to his carriage-wheel in future. The man was
furious, and said his order must not be turned into ridicule. The
muzzle of a pistol then peeped out in answer, and ended the controversy.
Victoriana came to have another portrait done of her, for her
egotistical gallery, and brought another nmuczacha belonging to
the house, to participate also in the benefits of a paper-and-pencil
immortalization. But the amateur artist who had sketched the
two previous stolen portraits, was not much in the humor to do a
third, and still less to delineate the form and features of the damsel who accompanied gentle Victoriana. For the former had certainly less charms to boast of than her patroness had; and when
I state that that twice-pictured damsel herself bore a rather striking resemblance to an individual commonly known as the Knave
of Clubs (and to that gentleman, too, only when afflicted with the
mumps-his personal charms being by no means overpowering at
any time), it will not excite so much surprise. It perhaps may
be conceived that Sir Peter Lely might have felt a little hesitation with respect to admitting this new candidate for pictorial
honors into his gallery of beauties (had she lived in his day), and
it is a melancholy fact that the amateur artist before alluded to,
looked particularly blank at the not very charming prospect before
her.
Victoriana, notwithstanding her likeness to the knave of clubs,
en petite sante, had at least a very pleasing and gay good-humored countenance, but her poor friend was the most forlorn and dolefill- looking damsel you ever beheld (so it was mumps and dumps);
and with her on one side and Victorina on the other, V looked like Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy, and ought to have
done the whole group, thus including herself, in these characters.
To please them, at last she did two little rough sketches, sufficiently flattering to both these mulligatawny-complexioned nymphs.
Then the merry one looked contemplative and absorbed in dreaming and delighted thought, as she gazed on her own picture: and
the dismal one turned merry. In short, Tragedy looked very
comic, and Comedy rather tragic and, serious; perhaps the latter
was secretly plotting how to run off with both sketches for her
private collection in some corner of the scullery devoted to high
art.
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