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218 York, and its passengers laid in a store of provisions which, in our rapid days, would supply them half way to America! "London, my country, city of the soul!" exclaimed Lady Mandeville, as she caught sight of the brilliantly lighted arches of Hyde Park Corner, and the noble sweep of the illuminated Park in the distance, while Piccadilly spread before them in the darkness like an avenue of lamps. "I have heard that a thorough-bred cockney is one of the most contented animals in the world: I, for one, to use a favourite modern expression, can quite 'enter into his feelings.'" "Do you remember," replied her husband, "Lorraine's quotation to St. James's Street?— And though I like the country, as an Englishman and a patriot ought to do, I own I feel the fascination of the flagstones." "Emily, I accuse you of want of sympathy with your friends—I declare you are asleep: