Excerpt from The Italian Girl

A Large tent had been raised in the outskirts of the city of New York. From within came a melee of sounds, loud laughter, the roar of beasts, the regular music of horse opera, horses were passing in and out of the tent, while a throng of most plebeian creatures, whom to look at made one loth to belong to the same race, were pressing forward and jostling one another without mercy.

"Have you not reserved seats?" said a young and elegantly dressed lady, one of a small party, to a gentleman by her side, who was evidently her husband.

"No, I inquired for them, but they were already taken."

"Let us go in quickly!" she said, her face lighting up, "I cannot help it, but I like everything belonging to horses, even in the dreary monotony of that music there is something that I half enjoy."

"Mary, " she continued to a pretty girl just behind her, who was leaning on the arm of a young man, "keep close to us."

"Yes, Cecilia, I am here by your side."

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