To-day I thought her still more attractive, when, wearing only a simple white _peignoir_, and her matchless hair bound tightly round her classically shaped head, I saw her enacting the part of _garde-malade_ to her children, who have caught the measles.
With a large, and well-chosen nursery-establishment, she would confide her precious charge to no care but her own, and moved from each little white bed to the other with noiseless step and anxious glance, bringing comfort to the dear little invalid in each.

No wonder that her children adore her, for never was there so devoted a mother.
In the meridian of youth and beauty, and filling so brilliant a position in France, it is touching to witness how wholly engrossed this amiable young woman's thoughts are by her domestic duties.

She incites, by sharing, the studies of her boys; and already is her little girl, owing to her mother's judicious system, cited as a model.
It was pleasant to see the Duc, when released from his attendance at court, hurrying into the sick chamber of his children, and their languid eyes, lighting up with a momentary animation, and their feverish lips relaxing into a smile, at the sound of his well-known voice.

And this is the couple considered to be "the glass of fashion and the mould of form," the observed of all observers, of the courtly circle at Paris! Who could behold them as I have done, in that sick room, without acknowledging that, despite of all that has been said of the deleterious influence of courts on the feelings of those who live much in them, the truly good pass unharmed through the dangerous ordeal?
Went to the Theatre des Nouveautes last night, where I saw _La Maison du Rempart_.

The Parisians seem to have decided taste for bringing scenes of riot and disorder on the stage; and the tendency of such exhibitions is any thing but salutary with so inflammable a people, and in times like the present.
One of the scenes of _La Maison du Rempart_ represents an armed mob demolishing the house of a citizen--an act of violence that seemed to afford great satisfaction to the majority of the audience; and, though the period represented is that of the _Fronde_, the acts of the rabble strongly assimilated with those of the same class in later times, when the revolution let loose on hapless France the worst of all tyrants--a reckless and sanguinary mob.