cortege. The visit over the wall. Gothic architecture.
Christmas-eve market. Walks by day and night. The conflagration.

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The widow. Love of the English for horrors. More agreeable travelling companion.
Examinations, and learned examiners. Stonehenge. Sinister meeting and accident.
Salisbury Cathedral. Monuments. The spire. Frightful ascent. The
hawk on the cross, and the bishop’s pigeons. His Lordship’s functions. Pious
wish for my Country. Mirror of the past and future. Wilton castle. The Chatelaine
antiques. Pictures. Temple built by Holbein. Talent and taste of English
ladies. Entrance by stratagem. Langford park. Fine pictures. Egmont. Alba.
Orange. Emperor Rudolph’s throne. Boxing-match, the betting coachman.
Modern English aristocratic morality. March of intellect. Military school.
Fox-chace. National duty. The new year. London. Canterbury cathedral.
The Black Prince. Splendour of colouring. The archbishop. The damaged
boiler. Dover fortress. Short passage. The air of France. The jetty. English
children. Unequal contest between a French bonne and a resolute little English
girl. The chief and father of dandies. Anecdotes.

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French diligence. The conducteur. An old soldier of Napoleon’s garde. German
Plinzen. La ‘mechanique.’ Value of freedom. Paris. Revision of the old acquaintance.
Bad new one. Theatre de Madame Leontine Fay. Virtuous Uncle
Martin. ‘La charte pour les cafes.’ Rosini the tamer of wild beasts. Cheapness
of Paris. Burlesque exhibition of the death of Prince Poniatowski. Praiseworthy
‘ensemble’ of French acting. Gleanings in the Louvre. The sphinx out of place.
The Mephistophiles Waltz. Heaven and Hell.

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Ascetic walk. Anecdotes of the Buonaparte family. Spanish courtesy. Theatre
Français. Omnibus. Thoughts in a Dame Blanche. Il Diavolo. Singers. Agrémens
of Paris. La Morne. Polar bear. Desaix’s monument. Disappointed hope.
The Amas. Departure.

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