And I can well conceive that the events which, each more disastrous than its predecessor, followed in France shortly after the date of the last of them, may have rendered, especially after the death of her parents, a life in France distasteful to her.

But I, and, I think, my mother also, had entirely lost sight of her for very many years.

Had I imagined that she was living in England, I should undoubtedly have endeavoured to see her.
I have known many women, denizens of _le grand monde_, who have adorned it with equally brilliant talents, equally captivating beauty, equally sparkling wit and vivacity of intelligence.

And I have known many, denizens of the studious and the book world, gifted with larger powers of intellect, and more richly dowered with the results of thought and study But I do not think that I ever met with one who possessed in so large a degree the choice product resulting from conversance with both these worlds.

She was in truth a very brilliant creature.
Madame D'Henin I remember made us laugh heartily one evening by telling us the following anecdote.