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most diminutive note in R----'s hand. It ran thus:-- "My Lord and Gentlemen, "I will accompany you to the Casino this evening at 8. I feel it my duty to show you all the attention I can. "Yours faithfully, "A--l--r C----." "Deuce take him!" said R----; "let us go at six." "From Mr. C----, I suppose," remarked P----, taking up and glancing at the piece of paper. "I see how it is. We must give him a civil hint; and if he won't take it, we must do the best we can. Poor old fellow! I should not like to hurt his feelings." When we had made an end of the treatment it was suggested Mr. C---- should receive, I put on my best coat, and went ashore. Scarcely had I, for the second time, rested my foot on the soil of Denmark, than I caught, riveted on me, two small pig-like eyes twinkling in the centre of an ebony face. "Me berry glad to see you, Sir," said the owner of this countenance, and, accompanying the welcome voice, the removal of a high-crowned white hat exposed to the African warmth of noon a head of true African wool. "Thank you, Solomon." "No, Sir; me Joe--Joe Washimtum," replied the black man, proudly; "but me brudder name Dabid--him better dan Sarlaman." Deeming this the beginning and result of our acquaintance, I walked on, paying no attention to the sable Mr. C----; but I had anticipated blacky's intentions wrongfully, for a few minutes were sufficient time to place him on my left hand. "Hab you, Sir, no cumsidumration to see um town?" he inquired. "Not to-day, Joe," I answered. "I have formed my plans; but some other day we will navigate the town together." "Berry good, Sir." And, again elevating his steeple white hat, away marched Joe, Commissionaire of l'Hotel d'Angleterre. The day was very hot, and my feet, swollen by the heat, suffered more than they did last night from the effects of the uneven stones. I limped from one street to the other, and found the "Amalien-Gade," not much inferior in breadth and length to Portland Place. Palaces of great symmetry, though of immense size, rose before the eye at every corner; and the residence of the Prince of Hesse is one of the most beautiful structures I have ever seen. The white colour, as at Christiansand, with which all these large buildings are painted, forces directly on the stranger's mind their lightness and elegant proportions. At the end of the "Amal
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