I observed that her hands were small and well-shaped.

We sate with her perhaps three-quarters of an hour or more--in which time she gave advice and various directions to two or three young men who were there, showing her confidence in us by the freest use of names and allusion to facts.

She seemed to be, in fact, _the man_ in that company, and the profound respect with which she was listened to a good deal impressed me.

You are aware from the newspapers that she came to Paris for the purpose of seeing the President in behalf of certain of her friends, and that it was a successful mediation.

What is peculiar in her manners and conversation is the absolute simplicity of both.