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CHIEFLY UPON THE THEME OF A YOUNG MAID'S IMAGININGS.
That Mausoleum at Dreux may touch to lift us.

History, pleads for the pride of the great discrowned Family giving her illumination there.
The pride is reverently postured, the princely mourning-cloak it wears becomingly braided at the hem with fair designs of our mortal humility in the presence of the vanquisher; against whom, acknowledgeing a visible conquest of the dust, it sustains a placid contention in coloured glass and marbles.
Mademoiselle de Seilles, a fervid Orleanist, was thanked for having advised the curvature of the route homeward to visit 'the spot of so impressive a monument': as it, was phrased by the Rev.Septimus Barmby; whose exposition to Nesta of the beautiful stained-glass pictures of incidents in the life of the crusading St.Louis, was toned to be likewise impressive:--Colney Durance not being at hand to bewail the pathos of his exhaustless 'whacking of the platitudes'; which still retain their tender parts, but cry unheard when there is no cynic near.
Mr.Barmby laid-on solemnly.
Professional devoutness is deemed more righteous on such occasions than poetic fire.

It robes us in the cloak of the place, as at a funeral.
Generally, Mr.Barmby found, and justly, that it is in superior estimation among his countrymen of all classes.

They are shown by example how to look, think, speak; what to do.