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bearded,^ tow-haired man, whose looks greatly belie 

 his ability and good nature, sits on the eastern end 

 of the table, facing President Angell, a man with a 

 saturnine, heavily-bearded face, a pattern of the old- 

 fashioned New England deacon. Mr. Putnam, his 

 co-Commissioner, sits on his right, a soft-faced 

 gentleman of very modest and unassuming manners. 

 On his right, and facing Mr. Chamberlain, sits Secre- 

 tary Bayard. Hung about the rooms are the por- 

 traits of the various statesmen who have reached 

 the high honour of being Secretary of State. Ex- 

 actly over the head of Mr. Chamberlain, with his 

 black tropical eyes bent down penetratingly upon 

 Mr. Bayard's face, is the portrait of James G. Blaine. 

 On the wall facing the English Commissioners is the 

 sallow, massive countenance of Daniel Webster, 

 painted by Healey in 1843, and across the room, 

 nearly over the British Minister's head, hangs 

 Healey's magnificent portrait of Lord Ashburton, 

 which he painted in 1848, and which Congress 

 bought of Fletcher Webster's widow for $3000. 

 These two portraits commemorate the famous 

 treaty of 1842, which settled the northern boundary 

 question." 



On December 6, Mr. Chamberlain, Bergne, and I 

 dined with Colonel John Hay, who with his wife 

 occupied one of the finest houses in Washington, in 

 I Street I think it was. We met a large party there, 



* Sir Lionel had no red in his beard, which was dark brown, inter- 

 mingled with some grey streaks. — W. M. 



