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my ardent wish, and I would like to see it before I 

 take my exit .... But what seas of difficulties in the 

 way, impediments of all sorts : difference of language, 

 foremost, religious creed next, and probably, as bad, if 

 not worse, rivalry, jealousies among all classes of so- 

 ciety, etc., etc .... I think, from the reflections I make 

 in sketching that dream, it will be as well for me to 

 take my exit as soon as the doors will be open and not 

 waste my illusions, though they do not cost me much, 

 yet it is a pity not. . . .not to see that dream a reality 



These illusions of mine in reference to an union 



between France and England have been nursed up in 

 my bosom for the last fifty years, and more ! but the 

 prospect is that I shall die with them unrealized .... it 

 is a pity ! ! 



L.M. 



In April, 1831, as I was going to leave Paris, I had 

 omitted to relate the particulars of my engagement, 

 which I had not thought proper to mention, but since 

 I have found it necessary to give an adequate idea of 

 the growing of my principles in religion, politics, moral, 

 intellectual affairs, etc. The man of whom I have 

 spoken as & ferocious royalist that wanted to civilize 

 people with volleys of musketry to prevent the spread- 

 ing of democratic principles, had recommended me to 



a gentleman living in Paris most of the time, except 3 

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