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nounced Mr. Bonaparte ! I told him I was not 

 much surprised to see him, as I knew that he had 

 left Rome. He has shaved off his beard again. 

 He said that he would like to go after R. to the 

 Gardens, but that he would also like to take Willie 

 with him as a protection. In the evening he came 

 back with the others and stayed to dinner. He 

 talked a good deal about science and also politics. 

 The toast was " Viva 1' Italia libra ! " at which he 

 was much pleased. After dinner he took up the 

 " Observer," not expecting to find correct news 

 in the paper ; but he said the accounts from Italy 

 were almost the same as those which he had 

 himself received. He left rather early, as he 

 had only arrived in England at ten o'clock this 

 morning.' 



A few days later Prince Charles Lucien came 

 again, saying that he was anxious to go to Madame 

 Tussaud's to see the wax figures of his relatives 

 there. 'It so happened,' Mrs. Owen writes, 

 ' that a Westminster friend of Willie's was here 

 to lunch, and the Prince having come here early, 

 said that he would come with us and the two boys. 

 When at the exhibition we had the rare oppor- 

 tunity of comparing the models of the Napoleon 

 and of Lucien with the son and nephew. The 

 Prince looks very Napoleonic at times, especially 

 when he frowns, as he did when puzzling over the 

 catalogue. He hunted out the likeness of his 

 cousin (Louis), but on seeing how very bad it 



