? Yes; at thirty. At twenty, when one is something of a poet--No: it is sufficient to see a grey pongee skirt! At fifty, when one is a philosopher--No: it is enough to perceive a soul! I had done both; I had seen the skirt; I had perceived the soul! Therefore, while hungry, I neglected my goulasch to read these lists of names of the United States again and again, only that I might have the thought that one of them--though I knew not which--might be this lady's, and that in so infinitesimal a degree I had been near her again. Will it be estimated extreme imbecility in me when I ventured the additional confession that I felt a great warmth and tenderness toward the possessors of all these names, as being, if not herself, at least her compatriots? I am now brought to the admission that before to-day I had experienced some prejudices against the inhabitants of the North-American republic, thou
