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SICILY AND MALTA. 233
Their opera dancers are those you had
last year at London : they are just arrived,
and the people are by no means pleased
with them. We saw them this morning
at the rehearsal; and, to their great sur-
prise, addressed them in Engliih. You
cannot imagine how happy they were to
see us. Poor souls ! I was delighted to
hear with what warmth of gratitude and
affection they spoke of England. There
is a mother and two daughters; the
youngest pretty, but the eldest, the first
dancer, appears a sensible, modest, well-
behaved girl;—more so than is common
with these sort of people. Speaking of
England, she said, with a degree of
warmth, that her good treatment in gene-
ral could hardly inspire, that in her life
she never left any country With so sore a
heart; and had she only enjoyed her
health, all the world should never have
torn her away from it.—She seemed af-
fected when she said this.—I acknowledged
the
Their opera dancers are those you had
last year at London : they are just arrived,
and the people are by no means pleased
with them. We saw them this morning
at the rehearsal; and, to their great sur-
prise, addressed them in Engliih. You
cannot imagine how happy they were to
see us. Poor souls ! I was delighted to
hear with what warmth of gratitude and
affection they spoke of England. There
is a mother and two daughters; the
youngest pretty, but the eldest, the first
dancer, appears a sensible, modest, well-
behaved girl;—more so than is common
with these sort of people. Speaking of
England, she said, with a degree of
warmth, that her good treatment in gene-
ral could hardly inspire, that in her life
she never left any country With so sore a
heart; and had she only enjoyed her
health, all the world should never have
torn her away from it.—She seemed af-
fected when she said this.—I acknowledged
the