--War trophies.--Knights
in armor.--A professional joke.--The crown
jewels.--The room where the little princes were
smothered.--The "Traitor's Gate."--The Houses of
Parliament.--What a throne is like.--The
"woolsack."--The Peeping Gallery for
ladies.--Westminster Hall and the law courts.--The
three drowsy old women.--The Great Panjandrum
himself.--Johnson and the pump.--St.
Paul's.--Wellington's funeral car.--The Whispering
Gallery.--The bell. 55

CHAPTER V.

AWAY TO PARIS.

The wedding party.--The canals.--New Haven.--Around
the tea-table.--Separating the sheep from the
goats.--"Will it be a rough passage?"--Gymnastic
feats of the little steamer.--O, what were officers
to us?--"Who ever invented earrings?"--Dieppe.--
Fish-wives.--Train for Paris.--Fellow-passengers.--
Rouen.--Babel.--Deliverance. 68

CHAPTER VI.

THE PARIS OF 1869.

The devil.--Cathedrals and churches.--The Louvre.--Modern
French art.--The Beauvais clock, with its droll, little
puppets.--Virtue in a red gown.--The Luxembourg
Palace.--The yawning statue of Marshal Ney.--Gay life
by gas-light.--The Imperial Circus.--The Opera.--How
the emperor and empress rode through the streets after
the riots.--The beautiful Spanish woman whose face was
her fortune.--Napoleon's tomb. 76

CHAPTER VII.

SIGHTS IN THE BEAUTIFUL CITY.

The Gobelin tapestry.--How and where it is made.--Pere
La-Chaise.--Poor Rachel!--The baby establishment.--"Now
I lay me."--The little mother.--The old woman who lived
in a shoe.--The American chapel.--Beautiful women and
children.--The last conference meeting.--"I'm a
proof-reader, I am." 90

CHAPTER VIII.

SHOW PLACES IN THE SUBURBS OF PARIS.

The river omnibuses.--Sevres and its porcelain.--St.
Cloud as it was.--The crooked little town.--
Versailles.--Eugenie's "spare bedroom."--The queen