[53] These Words Mean, Or Are Supposed To Mean, In French And In Dutch:

"I don't understand" (je n'entends pas).

- ED.

[54] Horace, Carm., IV, 2,39. - ED.

[55]John Chetwode Eustace (1762-1815), author of A Tour through Italy (2 vol., London, 1813), the eighth edition of which appeared in 1841. - ED.

[56] Theodoric was a Goth, not a Lombard. - ED.

[57] Of course, Silva Beleni. - ED.

[58] Perhaps Clement Francois Philippe de Laage Bellefaye, mentioned in the Souvenirs of Baron de Frenilly, p. 94. His large estates had been confiscated in the Revolution. - ED.

AFTER WATERLOO

PART II

CHAPTER VI

MARCH-JUNE,1816

Ball at Cambray, attended by the Duke of Wellington - An Adventure between Saint Quentin and Compiegne - Paris revisited - Colonel Wardle and Mrs Wallis - Society in Paris - The Sourds-Muets - The Cemetery of Pere La Chaise - Apathy of the French people - The priests - Marriage of the Duke de Berri.

March, 1816.

This time I varied my route to Paris, by passing thro' St Omer, Douay and Cambray. At Cambray I was present at a ball given by the municipality. The Duke of Wellington was there. He had in his hand an extraordinary sort of hat which had something of a shape of a folding cocked hat, with divers red crosses and figures on it, so that it resembled a conjurer's cap. I understand it is a hat given to his Grace by magnanimous Alexander; St Nicholas perhaps commissioned the Emperor to present it to Wellington, for his Grace is entitled to the eternal gratitude of the different Saints, as well as of the different sovereigns, for having maintained them respectively in their celestial and terrestrial dominions; and it is to be hoped, after his death, that the latter will celebrate for him a brilliant apotheosis, and the former be as complaisant to him and make room for him in the Empyreum as Virgil requests the Scorpion to do for Augustus:

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