Oh! to think of our having missed seeing that man.

It is painful.

A little book is published of his 'thoughts and maxims,' the sweepings of his desk I suppose; broken notes, probably, which would have been wrought up into some noble works, if he had lived.

Some of these are very striking.
Lamartine has not yet paid us the promised visit.

Just as we were beginning to feel vexed we heard that the intermediate friend who was to have brought him had been caught up by the Government and sent off to Saint-Germain to 'faire le mort,' on pain of being sent farther.