The hospitality of _le grande nation_ to the stranger is, in many respects, admirable.
Galleries, libraries, cabinets of coins, museums, are opened in the most liberal manner to the stranger, warmed, lighted, ay, and guarded, for him almost all days in the week; treasures of the past are at his service; but when anything is happening in the present, the French run quicker, glide in more adroitly, and get possession of the ground.

I find it not the most easy matter to get to places even where there is nothing going on, there is so much tiresome fuss of getting _billets_ from one and another to be gone through; but when something is happening it is still worse.

I missed hearing M.Guizot in his speech on the Montpensier marriage, which would have given a very good idea of his manner, and which, like this defence of M.Dumas, was a skilful piece of work as regards evasion of the truth.

The good feeling toward England which had been fostered with so much care and toil seems to have been entirely dissipated by the mutual recriminations about this marriage, and the old dislike flames up more fiercely for having been hid awhile beneath the ashes.

I saw the little Duchess, the innocent or ignorant cause of all this disturbance, when presented at court.
She went round the circle on the arm of the Queen.