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cigar in the other, were enveloped in a smoke 

 that rendered it difficult to see from one side 

 of the house to the other. 



The " Spectator" thinks that women may so 

 manage the graceful use of the fan as to make 

 it an engine capable of ensnaring the hearts 

 of man. If this be possible, how are we to 

 withstand a Mexican beauty thus doubly 

 armed ? how many a hero who has fearlessly 

 stood fire at Trafalgar or Waterloo, how 

 many men who have dared all the artillery of 

 the quadrille at Almack's, would fly from the 

 fair one with smoke issuing from her lips and 

 nostrils, and enveloped in all the fragrant 

 incense of the " real Havannah." 



The last time I visited the theatre was in 

 company of M. Lewis Sultzer, agent of the 

 Rhenish Company of Merchants. He had 

 been in Mexico 40 years before, during the 

 viceroyalty of the celebrated Galvez ; and 

 was strongly impressed with the miserably 



