Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . THE ARC I)E TKIOMIllE. BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME. Notre Dame. I wonder if you have ever, like me, happenedto know an old lady who had lived through awhole century without apparently having hervigor either of mind or body impaired by anyof those shocks which come every now andthen as premonitions of the long repose at theend. One I knew formerly lived in the mem-ory of her first fifty years. After those shegave up following the incessant evolutionof manners and ideas; she kept almost entirelyto her own r
Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . THE ARC I)E TKIOMIllE. BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME. Notre Dame. I wonder if you have ever, like me, happenedto know an old lady who had lived through awhole century without apparently having hervigor either of mind or body impaired by anyof those shocks which come every now andthen as premonitions of the long repose at theend. One I knew formerly lived in the mem-ory of her first fifty years. After those shegave up following the incessant evolutionof manners and ideas; she kept almost entirelyto her own room, surrounded by her familiarbibelots and her faded furniture; and she pre-served the fashion in dress of the time whenshe bade the world farewell. Her great-grand-children, already men, seemed to her almoststrangers; they had ideas and a manner oflooking at life which she could not under-stand; and they no longer recalled to her inany way those whom she had loved, longdead, to whom she had given her first as wellas her last tenderness. The sensation of deep melancholy which I always had before this ancient dame
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