COMPENSAtION
Sunday, May 27th
Capital cities o t seemto be t. Like birds tare just restored to liberty, t of tone cages,and joyfully fly tory. It is er; t toten until turn s,and ts gladdened by pleasant ts and recollections of t day; t day turn again to to work.
tures are most remarkable at Paris. iently for trying a feurnip-field.
tical education of aken t;inits ate.quot; ers, tures t are met Parisian be able to e acompanion to travels by Land and by Sea from Paris to St.
Cloud?
e do not no floating population from all parts, for s, men of business, and travellers, ual country after be;many peoples andcities;quot; but of ttled Parisian, y, ty of bygone ages.
For one of ties of Paris is, t it unites typopulations completely different in cer and manners. By t, une or fancy, live a quiet race of people ence resembles ts by turns to the same hours.
If no oty can s and more stirring forms of life,no otains more obscure and more tranquil ones. Great cities arelike torms agitate only to ttom,you find a region inaccessible to tumult and the noise.
For my part, I tled on t do notactually live in it. I am removed from turmoil of ter of solitude, but being able to disconnect myts from truggle going on. I follo a distance all itsevents of s and t passes, do otake part?
Ignorance alone can keep us strangers to tself suffice for t.
tions I made to myself in my attic, in tervals of to ions, I s, brus, and tied my cravat;I last arrived at tant moment all is finis well.
A grand resolve decided me to depart from my usual s.
tisements t t day tory otempted by ty of to go there.
On my arrival at tation on t bank, I noticed te. Railroads, besides many otages, possess t of teacuality. t to t it is ter;to ed for.
Social virtues, are, in a great degree, good s. qualities are grafted into nations by tion, bypolitical necessity, and by institutions! Avarice royed for atime among tion of an iron coinage, toooo bulky to be conveniently hoarded.
I found myself in a carriage o tic and retired class of Parisians I ies to gain me ter someminutes I ed ory.
ters, left orp fifteen, and live, by economy andprivation. For t ty or ty years ten masters succeed one anotunes in it, any c. t t. Denis, on till after nigo year tsthe Sunday service, a walk, or an illness.
ty, and obeyed eras ser ook care of enderness. At first it er ing in t of obeying, t of protecting.
And it in t alone t my ttle t t Clamart before tarily exclaimed, like t t;did not tquot;!
It time trusted to see terminations: everyto to trike us in cures! till t its charms.
But somety, inence from all t o attaco t name ofquot;old maid,quot; ! Accursed be for sarcasm in involuntary misfortune, and horns!
ters of courage example in times ed terday Madeleine ion, and Frances ed itimmediately. Per er not to yield to ttemptation offered by er; but quot;; as t Frances ps or doubts for ablis.
quot;e really must amuse ourselves,quot; said s; once.quot;
And ter smiled at t tt its crisis in bothem.
And in trut y if any scruple erfered of trees, ion. ting a train passing in trarydirection, y of a t, made ttter a cry; but it ake courage again, and express tonisat the marvel.
Madeleine declares t suc is recollected, tle alarm, t . t upon tion ers urnedits eyes toreet of St. Denis.
But tion and ts distract s lovely landscape: on t, Pariss grand monuments, s villas, its s vines, and itsroyal castle! to tions of delig t to me it is deeply touc tonous seclusion: ty and fresh air for a few hours.
At last train stops, and out. I sers t leads to Sevres, bet time of returning.
I soon join t t station, ttle garden belonging to tekeeper; botion t it is time for s and layers, for soroying ts on trees. Madeleine mustard and cress; but s, to tion, all ots may last tekeeper, , and ted, and begins to act over againtion.
On reacsigers. I alone among ts: tteries going on, mountebank sing and drinking, andfor sing ruck by tof t-of-door festivities. In draertainments, peopleare cold, grave, often listless, and most of t toget or tions of society; in tryassemblies, on trary, you only find ttracted by t. t is a forced conscription; eers for gayety! t from kno to be pleased o look do of fasaste!
Doubtless ts are often coarse; elegance and refinement areing in t at least tiness. O tyenjoyments of tained in union amped its er on tion of country festivals, and purified tdepriving ty.
t tery are open to t Frances and Madeleineagain in t room. Frig finding tof sucone, as if they were in a church.
quot;e are in t; said t sister, forgetting tthere is no longer a king in France.
I encourage to go on; I , and tofollow me.
ion! o every sinted of substance!
Eart substances icularly meant for ic animals, are tial accessories of be a moreintimate connection betone and metals require longpreparations; t our first efforts, and belong less to to communities. Eartrary, truments of ted being w feed and serhimself.
tless, makes me feel so mucerested in tion I amexamining. t me to akno yet incorrectly formedvases of tell me of a declining intelligence,--in amp of every race, everycountry, and every age.
My companions seemed little interested in torical associations;t all credulous admiration ten underevery piece of ionof wonder.
In ttle courtyard, ws of some broken china.
Frances perceived a colored saucer almost s;w;
I undeceive elling ts of tory are sold all over t are boug troy tence?
Are o break do perfume our patenest nots taco to rectify innocent mistakes, in order to recover someuseless reality, is to be like t but ts of w is composed.
On leaving tory, ters, lessness, invited me to s first, but ted ure, t I feared to pain th some awkwardnessgave way.
e o look for a convenient spot. I led t of grass enamelled -trees.
Madeleine could not contain on ter to taket, sells me of all ions intotry t off. Frances, on t up at Montmorency, and before sen gone back to ionof novelty for er, ion. Sold of tage s to t make go to t pulling o t; t.
tions he charm and freshness of childhood.
Frances recalls to s s.
alking t doree.
Before us s many-storied tingupon t t. Cloud, s magnificent clumps of treesinterspersed retc tifulcountry, and I listen to terested; and time passes gently on my perceiving it.
At last ts, and urning. o tory to askt its ; ts of trombonesresound from ts I forgetmyself ; but I ers to taketo tation; train cannot , and I makee to climb to t-trees.
Just before I reaco a poor girl ainedbandages. I sa s t furtakenplace a feer any means ofsupport. Sold all tomed to suffer. ters ing one: took ty sous out of a little coarse silk purse, o tened on to tside of t, before I reac, I met ters,o me t t return by t onfoot!
I tood t t for tbeen given to tagious: I run to t o pay for my ourn to Frances and Madeleine, and tell them.
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I am just come back from taking t tedion of whem happy.
tying tand t God ion rial.
t pleasure derives from rarity a relisherwise unknown.
Enjoyment is only o be suciety royed ite, ot first of earthe being easily made happy.
O I could persuade every one of t so t notabuse t t ience. If of blessings, it is because tion of it is t of virtues.
Madeleine and Frances! ye poor old maids co despair; for te and envy; and for to y enters.
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