It made me think of my old autograph book with Antonio de Vallombrosa, and the rest.

Do you remember ?" "Of course we do.

Well, go on." "At last she said something about Comte Ernest de Conflans,--I had heard of him, perhaps?
He crossed in the steamer with 'Mamma and me,' it seems; and we have seen a great deal of him.

This appeared a good opportunity to show that I too have relations with the nobility, so I said yes, I had met him in Boston, and my sister had seen a good deal of him in Washington last winter.
"'And what did she think of him ?' demanded Lilly.
"'Well,' said I, 'she didn't seem to think a great deal about him.

She says all the young men at the French legation seem more than usually foolish, but Comte Ernest is the worst of the lot.