In spite of his change from repression to conciliation, and in spite of dismissing Germain to the House of Lords with an ill-earned peerage, Lord North found his majority dwindling away.

It was he who told me of old Prince Gortschakoff's famous phrase when he heard of Thiers's death(he died at St. Germain in 1877)"Encore une lumiere eteinte quand

When last I heard from Paris your doings were furnishing the Quartier St. Germain with a good deal of amusement and gossip.'

But for mental selection of St. Germain as the likeliest spot for Dupont to lay in waiting, and thanks also to an error of judgment on the part of that one, he must have missed it; for there was nothing strikingly sinister in the aspect of that long-bodied grey car with the capacious hood betokening a motor of great power.

Offer him a hundred thousand crowns for himself, the commission of Lieutenant-General of Provence for his brother, and the reversion of the Abbey of St. Germain for the Princesse de Conti.

He died suddenly at St. Germain on the 3d of September.

No one figured more largely in the Parisian chronicle than the Princess Estradina, and no name more impressively headed the list at every marriage, funeral and philanthropic entertainment of the Faubourg Saint Germain than that of her mother, the Duchesse de Dordogne, who must be no other than the old woman sitting in the Bath-chair with the crumpled bonnet and the ridiculous sunshade.

They in a sense correspond to the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Avenue des Champs Élysées, and Boulevard St. Germain of Paris.

In no other city, not even in the Faubourg St. Germain at Paris, did I feel myself such a very poor devil as in those streets.