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Excerpt from Memoirs of an Author, Vol. 2 of 2
Once, in Dublin, I was invited to a party given on a rather eccentric principle. It was to commence with a lunch at two; there was a concert, conversation, and tea to follow, until dinner was reached. This was, as may be imagined, a serious original business, for there were a large number of persons to be provided for. After the dinner there was a dance. The hostess was Mrs. Parnell, mother of the uncrowned King - an agreeable American lady with handsome daughters. It was here that I met Mr. Dion Boucicault, who was at the height of his reputation as the author of the charming 'Colleen Bawn.' He was then an interesting, and even brilliant, man, and greatly followed by the public gaze, for he was assumed to be safe and clever, shrewd and far-seeing.
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