. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. THE EUROPEAN JOURNALS 329 is-Roy'il, by many 2d-coated )osed the ok off my wards the :s. I told , and gave XX was not the ante- , portfolio 5t staircase bottom in )readth, to 1 by a sky- of the sur- hree doors, d, however, imber, with until I had ich. Not a lem with a my original or of black \ a sergeant rong, wore very wide; ,nutes a tall, ler direction were again hat, and the e, though 1 ;d, when the ,w long this Ihim I came Isee him. A profound bow was the answer, and I was conducted to another room, where several ge
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. THE EUROPEAN JOURNALS 329 is-Roy'il, by many 2d-coated )osed the ok off my wards the :s. I told , and gave XX was not the ante- , portfolio 5t staircase bottom in )readth, to 1 by a sky- of the sur- hree doors, d, however, imber, with until I had ich. Not a lem with a my original or of black \ a sergeant rong, wore very wide; ,nutes a tall, ler direction were again hat, and the e, though 1 ;d, when the ,w long this Ihim I came Isee him. A profound bow was the answer, and I was conducted to another room, where several gentlemen were seated writing. I let one of them know my errand, and in a moment was shown into an immense and superbly furnished apartment, and my book was ordered to be brought up. In this room I bowed to two gentlemen whom I knew to be members of the Legion d'Honneur, and walked about admiring the fine marble statues and the paintings. A gentleman soon came to me, and asked if perchance my name was Audubon? I bowed, and he replied: " Bless me, we thought that you had gone and left your portfolio; my uncle has been waiting for you twenty minutes; pray, sir, follow ; We passed through a file of bowing domestics, and a door being opened I saw the Duke coming towards me, to whom I was introduced by the nephew. Lucy, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama have furnished the finest men in the world, as regards physical beauty; I have also seen many a noble-looking Osage chief; but I do not recollect a finer-looking man, in form, deportment, and manners, than this Due d'Orleans. He had my book brought up, and helped me to untie the strings and arrange the table, and began by saying that he felt a great pleasure in subscribing to the work of an American, for that he had been most kindly treated in the United States, and should never forget it. The portfolio was at last opened, and when I held up the plate of the Baltimore Orioles, with a nest swinging amongst the tender twigs o
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