The party was an agreeable one, and the guests seemed mutually pleased with each other.
Monsieur Thiers is a very remarkable person--quick, animated, and observant: nothing escapes him, and his remarks are indicative of a mind of great power.

I enjoy listening to his conversation, which is at once full of originality, yet free from the slightest shade of eccentricity.
Monsieur Mignet, who is the inseparable friend of Monsieur Thiers, reminds me every time I see him of Byron, for there is a striking likeness in the countenance.

With great abilities, Monsieur Mignet gives me the notion of being more fitted to a life of philosophical research and contemplation than of action, while Monsieur Thiers impresses me with the conviction of his being formed to fill a busy and conspicuous part in the drama of life.
He is a sort of modern Prometheus, capable of creating and of vivifying with the electric spark of mind; but, whether he would steal the fire from Heaven, or a less elevated region, I am not prepared to say.

He has called into life a body--and a vast one--by his vigorous writings, and has infused into it a spirit that will not be soon or easily quelled.

Whether that spirit will tend to the advancement of his country or not, time will prove; but, _en attendant_, its ebullitions may occasion as much trouble to the _powers that be_ as did the spirit engendered by Mirabeau in a former reign.
The countenance of Monsieur Thiers is remarkable.