A morning dress by this artist, worth in reality about 4l., cost 30l.; an evening dress, tawdry with flounces, ribbons, and bad lace could not be had under 70.

There are about thirty shops in Paris where, as at this man-milliner's, the goods are not better than elsewhere, but where they cost about ten times their value.

They are patronised by fools with more money than wits, and chiefly by foreign fools.

The proprietor of one of these establishments was complaining to me the other day of what he was losing by the siege; I told him that I sympathised with him about as much as I should with a Greek brigand, bewailing a falling off of wealthy strangers in the district where he was in the habit of carrying on his commercial operations.

Whenever the communications are again open to Paris, and English return to it, I would give them this piece of advice--never deal where _ici on parle Anglais_ is written up; it means _ici on vole les Anglais_.