becomes vivid, majestic, symbolic. It ends by being more impressive than the biggest review I saw in Germany. Of course, I 'm a roaring Yankee; but one has to take a big brush to copy a big model. The future is here, of course; but it is n't only that—the present is here as well. You will complain that I don't give you any personal news; but I am more modest for myself than for my country. I spent a mouth in New York, and while I was there I saw a good deal of a rather interesting girl who came over with me in the steamer, and whom for a day or two I thought I should like to marry. But I should n't. She has been spoiled by Europe!
VIII.
FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, IN NEW YORK, TO MISS WHITESIDE, IN PARIS.
January 9.
I told you (after we landed) about my agreement with mamma—that I was to have my liberty for three months, and if at the end of this time I should n't have made a good use of it, I was to give it back to her. Well, the time is up to-day, and I am very much afraid I haven't made a good use of it. In fact, I have n't made any use of it at all—I have n't got married, for that is what mamma meant by our little bargain. She has been trying to marry me in Europe, for years, without a dot, and as she has never
