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Title: Travels of Anna Bishop in Mexico. 1849
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Bishop, Anna Rivière, 1814-1884 Deal, Charles, pub
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : C. Deal
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rcos was honored with an encore,for the purpose of enabling Bochsa to note down themusic. Alfred, the secretary, translated the wordsinto French, to give Anna the full meaning of them,and Francesca, Annas maid, was despatched to thebest milliners, to order a costume a la mucliacha.Anna, as she always is, was as particular concerningthe correctness of her costume of a Mexican grisetteas of Judith or Norma, and on the succeeding Sab-bath took a long walk, to observe the mudJiacJias, andthe real type of the character she was about torepresent. The handsome reboso, the costly hand-kerchief, the glittering short red jupon, the prettyblue satin shoes, the fine silk stocking, all wasthought of and carefully observed, and got up in thevery best style. When Anna had thoroughly learned the Pasadita,and had made herself entirely at home in the cos*tume of a nmchacha, she decided on giving a dressrehearsal in her spacious saloons, and invited to it,not the fashionable society in which she usually
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i ANNA IN MEXICO. 271 moved, but her laundresses, the family of Cortez,living in the city, Francescas female friends, andthe whole escorte, with,, car^e blanche for all tl:-irfriends and acquaintances. All were punctual; and, after having partakenof pulque and tortillas, which had been placed forthem in the garden, they were summoned to thedrawing-room, where foot-lights had been arrangedas in a theatre, to give effect to the scene. Bochsatook his seat at the piano, struck a brilliant ritour-nelle, and in a moment Anna entered, in full costume,walking in that free and easy manner of the Mexi-cans, which no other nation can imitate. The effectwas electric: the whole audience sprang from theirseats — they roared — they applauded — they wentfrantic with a real and unmistakeable delight — andAnna was satisfied that the Pasadita sung in publicwould be a decided hit. We must not forget to mention that this little soiree du tiers etat concluded with a pretty Spanish duetto, sung by t

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