1848-49 LUCIEN BONAPARTE COMES AGAIN 343 
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 W illie 
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 I’ltalia 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 
