The Rooms
Were Just Large Enough For A Bed, A Bureau, A Little Table, And, I
Think, Two Chairs.
There were shelves around the room, except on the
side that looked into the Hall, where was the door and a window.
On
these shelves were ranged little keepsakes, books and various
articles of taste, often beautiful shells; there were hanging up
around the rooms profiles of friends, perhaps the dearest that this
life can give us. I could not help thinking that many a touching
story might be told by those silent but eloquent memorials. We were
much amused with looking at a card put in one of the windows of
these little comfortable state rooms, on which was written these
words: "Anti-poke-your-nose-into-other-folks'-business Society. 5000
Pounds reward annually to any one who will really mind his own
business; with the prospect of an increase of 100 Pounds, if he
shall abstain from poking his nose into other folks' business." We
returned to London in a steamer.
Now you must suppose you are walking with me in Paris, on a bright
Sunday morning in spring. We will go first to the Place Vendome. It
is an oblong square with the corners cut off. The buildings are all
of the same beautiful cream-colored stone, and of the same style of
architecture, - a basement story, very pretty and simple, and upper
stories ornamented with Corinthian pilasters and gilded balconies.
There are high, pointed roofs with pretty luthern windows.
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