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fast first, and a heavier one at 12.30. After early 

 breakfast Paiinie [Miss Pauline Shaw] and I gener- 

 ally do something together. Often we take one room 

 at the Louvre and devote ourselves to that, after get- 

 ting the first outline sketch from Quin. These quiet 

 mornings there with ease and leisure for what we like 

 best are delightful. This morning . . . coming out 

 from [St. Germain I'Auxerrois] we crossed one of the 

 bridges, standing long to watch the craft on the river 

 — the passenger boats going to and fro. And then on 

 the other side we followed the Quais, where they sell 

 the old books and engravings, music, etc., and past 

 the Institut (I thought how often Agassiz had gone 

 out and in there), and along the old street of quaint, 

 queer shops, and then returned across another bridge 

 and by the garden of the Tuileries home to our 

 hotel. 



There is something very attractive in wandering 

 about on foot in this independent fashion, mousing 

 out things for ourselves — much better than going 

 about in carriages, I think, and I am glad to find that 

 I can do a good deal on foot. 



TO MISS MARY FELTON 



Hotel Meurice, Pans, November 20, 1894 

 We have done and seen much since I wrote you, of 

 which the two things that I remember with the deep- 

 est interest are an afternoon at Chantilly, the place 

 of the Due d'Aumale, and next a morning at Notre 

 Dame (high mass). It is a wonderful thing to hear the 



