There were several French journalists, opening their eyes very wide, under the impression that this would enable them to understand English.

A Secretary of Legation was sitting at a table giving audiences to unnumbered ladies who wished to know how they could leave Paris; or, if this was impossible, how they could draw on their bankers in New York.

Mr.Washburne walked about cheerily shaking everyone by the hand, and telling them to make themselves at home.

How different American diplomatists are to the prim old women who represent us abroad, with a staff of half-a-dozen dandies helping each other to do nothing, who have been taught to regard all who are not of the craft as their natural enemies.

At the English Embassy Colonel Claremont and a porter now represent the British nation.