sed, as a means of raising money, to lay a tax of six
hundred francs a year upon everybody who _keeps more than one servant_!
Can folly go beyond that?

Henry Greville showed me yesterday a letter he had received from Paris
from Count Pahlen, saying that, though the guillotine was not yet
erected, the reign of terror had virtually commenced; for that the
pusillanimous dread that kept the whole nation in awe of a handful of
pickpockets could be described as nothing else.

I am much concerned about E----'s fortune, the whole of which is, I
believe, lodged in French funds. All property there must be in terrible
jeopardy, I fear.

Lady G---- F---- went to Claremont two days ago, and says that Louis
Philippe's deportment is that of a servant out of place. She did not
add, "Pas de bonne maison." ...

Ever yours,
FANNY.

[On the famous 10th of April, the day of the great Chartist meeting,
I drove from King Street to Westminster Bridge in the morning,
before the monster demonstration took place; and though the shops
were shut and the streets deserted, everything was perfectly quiet
and orderly, and nothing that _appeared_ indicated the political
disturbance with which the city was threatened--the dread of which
induced people, as far as the Regent's Park from the Houses of
Parliament, to pack up their valuables and plate, etc., and prepare
for instant flight from London. In the evening, my friends would
hardly believe my peaceful progress down Whitehall, and I heard two
striking incidents, among the day's smaller occurrences: that Prince
Louis Napoleon had enrolled himself among the special constables for
the preservation of peace and order; and that M. Guizot, standing
where men of every grade, from dandies to draymen, were flocking to
accept the same service of public preservation, kept exclaiming,
with tears in his eyes, "Oh, le brave peuple! le brave peuple!"--a
contrast certainly to his Parisian barricaders.

In the summer of 1848 I returned to America, where my great good
fortune in the success of my public readings soon enabled me to
realize my long-cherished hope of purchasing a small cottage and a
few acres of land in the beautiful and beloved neighborhood of
Lenox.]

THE END.

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