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FOREIGN LIFE
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u Were I to take an oflice in London ntnc\ the pay might possibly be us much as ,£00 a year, without any vacation, or any hope of advance in life, and even in the most miserable lodgings it would be diilieult to live in London under «£*!00 a year. However, if my mother hears of anything which she wishes me to take, I will certainly take it.
uAunt Kitty has been very kind, and I have enjoyed going a.bout with Arthur. Yesterday we went to the Oon-eiergcrie, where, by help of the Archbishop's hitter and an

order from the Prefecture of Police, we contrived to gain admittance. It in in the centre of Louis the Ninth*« palace, of which it was once the dungeon, and has been very little altered. The room in which Marie Antoinette was confuted for two montlm before her execution has scarcely been changed at all. There are still the heavy barred doors, the brick floor* the cold damp smell, the crucifix which hung before the window and kneeling before which nhe received the viaticum, the placet where the bod stood, upon which the Queen could not lie? down without being watched by the guards — who never took their eyes off-—from the wicket opposite. Opening out of thu Queen's prison is a 1 From '* Paris/*