And I admire the bright green trees and gardens everywhere in the heart of the town.

Surely it is a most beautiful city! And I like the restaurants more than is reasonable; dining _a la carte_, and mixing up one's dinner with heaps of newspapers, and the 'solution' by Emile de Girardin, who suggests that the next President should be a tailor.

Moreover, we find apartments very cheap in comparison to what we feared, and we are in a comfortable quiet hotel, where it is possible, and not ruinous, to wait and look about one.
As to England--oh England--how I dread to think of it.

We talk of going over for a short time, but have not decided when; yet it will be soon perhaps--it may.

If it were not for my precious Arabel, I would not go; because Robert's family would come to him here, they say.