To-night there will be a great gathering of Kentuckians.
Morgan gives them a dinner. The city of Richmond entertains John Morgan. He is
at free quarters. The girls dined here. Conny Cary came back for more white
feathers. Isabella had appropriated two sets and obstinately refused Constance
Cary a single feather from her pile. She said, sternly: “I have never been on
the stage before, and I have a presentiment when my father hears of this, I
will never go again. I am to appear before the footlights as an English dowager
duchess, and I mean to rustle in every feather, to wear all the lace and
diamonds these two houses can compass” — (mine and Mrs. Preston's). She was
jolly but firm, and Constance departed without any additional plumage for her
Lady Teazle.
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 276
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