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And is it possible that some still believe that they and the French might come to blows ?" The very few Frenchmen who were travelling on the steamer found themselves admired as though they had increased immeasurably in public esteem.

There were only three;--an old jeweller who had been visiting his branch shops in America, and two demi-mondaines from the rue de la Paix, the most timid and well-behaved persons aboard, vestals with bright eyes and disdainful noses who held themselves stiffly aloof in this uncongenial atmosphere.
At night there was a gala banquet in the dining room at the end of which the French flag and that of the Empire formed a flaunting, conspicuous drapery.