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and a wonderful amount of surprise mingled with all. 

 I cannot find an expression to render what I felt. The 

 famous u gin-cocked-tail " came to my mind at once, 

 and I was already comparing the two liquors together. 

 The most aristocratic with the most demagogic ! Do 

 you realize earnestly the idea to offer me champagne 

 after that anarchist gin-cocked-tail. I had not fully 

 recovered my presence of mind my wits, when the 

 wine was in the cups, when he raised his glass and said 

 to the health of our Americanized friend, L. M. ! ! Do 

 you think that was an apology for the insults he had 

 thrown in my face when he was unconscious of his 

 doings? In that moment I would not have exchanged 

 it for the whole world. When we had drunk the 

 contents of the bottle we went to see the new plants. 



With new sensations but with our SAME 



feelings of old, " Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem." 

 " The wolf changes its coat but not its character." 



When we came in presence of the group of newly 

 imported plants, I, with reverence admiration sur- 

 prise, took off my hat, and looked at the owner of the 

 plants, and the plants also, while he did the same, ob. 

 serving the external change of my feelings on my face 

 to find what they could be internally ; he could see my 

 surprise in my eyes fixed on the plants, but I could 

 also see in his countenance, he was literally palpitating 



