Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

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LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.
US
." The success of the whole work was great, and at its termination we supped with Mr. Balfe, at his lodgings in the Quadrant, and found there, assembled to meet us, many emi­nent artists. Malibran had arrived before me. I rang at the street door, but as when that was opened there was no light in the passage, I called out to the servant, to ascertain how far I was to ascend, when Malibran, hearing my voice, ran to the top of the stairs, and said, 'Quick, quick, give me a candle!—here is "The light of other days" coming up in the dark.'"