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"The serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain:     **** There be bright faces in the busy hall, Bowls on the board, and banners on the wall; Far checkering o'er the pictured windows plays The wonted faggots' hospitable blaze; And gay retainers gather round the hearth, With tongues all loudness, and with eyes all mirth." .

" an Englishman, and I hate the French," is the common expression of our cosmopolite feelings—the French being a generic term for all foreigners. Fashion may court the attachés to an embassy for the sake of their presence and perfumes at a party;—revolutions may occasion an interchange of deputations from the Rotunda to Mesdames les Poissardes—those political nereids who preside over the fish-market, and assist any "glorious cause" that may be in hand:—but these moments of fashion and favour are few and far between,