knew what they meant. Strange folk that didn't understand their own 

 language! 



We were surprised to see how completely all traces of the Franco- 

 Prussian War, which had ended only four years before, had been re- 

 moved. Paris was still marred by the ruins of the Tuileries and the 

 Hotel de Ville, but they were the work of the communists, not of the 

 Germans. That summer of 1875 there was great tension between France 

 and Germany and a renewal of the war was threatened, but we had 

 no suspicions as to the state of affairs and I did not learn of it till I 

 went to Heidelberg as a student in 1879. The German intention to at- 

 tack France was then openly discussed as a matter of history. 



The homeward voyage was almost as bad as the outward one had 

 been, but the gale did not last so long and we had a few quiet days at 

 the end. 



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