The innocents abroad; . t, he observed an open spaceinside the railing. He left his carriage and went into it. Hewas the only person there, and so he had plenty of room, andthe situation being central, he could see all the preparationsgoing on about the field. By and by there was a sound ofmusic, and soon the Emperor of the French and the Emperorof Austria, escorted by the famous Cent Oardes^ entered theinclosure. They seemed not to observe him, but directly, inresponse to a sign from the commander of the Guard, a younglieutenant came toward him with a file of his men following,halted, raised
The innocents abroad; . t, he observed an open spaceinside the railing. He left his carriage and went into it. Hewas the only person there, and so he had plenty of room, andthe situation being central, he could see all the preparationsgoing on about the field. By and by there was a sound ofmusic, and soon the Emperor of the French and the Emperorof Austria, escorted by the famous Cent Oardes^ entered theinclosure. They seemed not to observe him, but directly, inresponse to a sign from the commander of the Guard, a younglieutenant came toward him with a file of his men following,halted, raised his hand and gave the military salute, andthen said in a low voice that he was sorry to have to disturba stranger and a gentleman, but the place was sacred to roy-alty. Then this I^ew Jersey phantom rose up and bowed andbegged pardon, then with the officer beside him, the file ofmen marching behind him, and with every mark of re-spect, he was escorted to his carriage by the imperial Cent 150 THE OVER-ESTIMATED ROYAL HONORS TO A YANKEE. Oardes I The officer saluted again and fell back, the KewJersey sprite bowed in return and had presence of mind enough to pretend that he hadsimply called on a matter ofprivate business with those em-perors, and so waved them anadieu, and drove from thefield! Imagine a poor Frenchmanignorantly intruding upon apublic rostrum sacred to somesix-penny dignitary in police would scare him todeath, first, with a storm oftheir elegant blasphemy, andthen pull him to pieces gettinghim away from there. We aremeasurably superior to theFrench in some things, but they are immeasurably our bet-ters in others. Enough of Paris for the present. We have done our wholeduty by it. We have seen the Tuileries, the ISTapoleonColumn, the Madeleine, that wonder of wonders the tomb of!N^apoleon, all the great churches and museums, libraries, im-perial palaces, and sculpture and picture galleries, the Pan-theon, Jardin des Plantes, the opera, the circ
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