de Stael, Mme.

Roland, Charlotte Corday, and other famous men and women lived and died, were pointed out to us.

We little thought, then, of all the terrible scenes to be enacted in Paris, nor that France would emerge from the dangers that beset her on every side into a sister republic.

It has been a wonderful achievement, with kings and Popes all plotting against her experiment, that she has succeeded in putting kingcraft under her feet and proclaimed liberty, equality, fraternity for her people.
After a few weeks in France, we returned to London, traveling through England, Ireland, and Scotland for several months.

We visited the scenes that Shakespeare, Burns, and Dickens had made classic.