Took possession of our new house to-day, and are delighted with it.

Its repose and quiet are very agreeable, after the noise and bustle of the Rue de Rivoli.

Spent several hours in superintending the arrangement of my books, china, _bijouterie_, and flowers, and the rooms look as habitable as if we had lived in them for weeks.

How fortunate we are to have found so charming an abode! A chasm here occurs in my journal, occasioned by the arrival of some dear relatives from England, with whom I was too much occupied to have time to journalise.

What changes five years effect in young people! The dear girls I left children are now grown into women, but are as artless and affectionate as in childhood.