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 have all her friends out to stop with her; she will go to Montpellier, New York, Charleston, which she remembered agreed so well with her. But it was really to Paris that her heart turned with most yearning; and there, it was said, those who had worshipped and bowed before the enchantress in her day of triumph were now become oblivious and indifferent. She wrote the following letter to him she loved from Thebes on the 10th March:—

Then she gives the following translation of an Arab legend:—

Colombe blanche, où vas-tu? Tes ailes frappent l'air à pleines volées et t'emportent plus loin, plus loin, plus loin.

La Colombe.—"Je vais où il m'attend, au delàau-delà [sic] des nues plus loin, plus loin, plus loin."