[The Idler in France by Marguerite Gardiner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Idler in France CHAPTER XXVI 16/16
She referred to this to-day with streaming eyes, and brought many a tear to mine by the sadness of her anticipations. The Duc and Duchess de Guiche I shall soon see in England, on their route to Edinburgh, to join tho exiled family at Holyrood, for they are determined not to forsake them in adversity. Adieu a Paris! two years and a half ago I entered you with gladness, and the future looked bright; I leave you with altered feelings, for the present is cheerless and the future clouded. * * * * * NOTES [1: Now Baron d'Haussey.] [2: The hermitage was lent him by Madame d'Epinay, to whom his subsequent ingratitude forms a dark page in her _Memoires_.] [3: The present Lord Abinger.] [4: Now Lord Glenelg.] [5: Now Lord Francis Egerton.] [6: Now Madame Emile de Girardin.] [7: "Where thou beholdest Genius, There thou beholdest, too, the martyr's crown."] [8: The present Earl of Cadogan.] [9: The Duc de Guiche, being _premier menin_ to the Dauphin, used, according to custom, the arms and liveries of that prince.] [10: Now Marechal.] INDEX TO THE CONTENTS..
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