The life and letters of Washington Irving . ing about you for so manydays. And now let me express how much I feel obliged to you and Kennedyfor drawing me forth out of my little country nest, and setting me oncemore in circulation. This has grown out of our fortunate meeting andsojourn together at Saratoga last summer, and I count these occurrencesas among the most pleasant events of my Hfe. They have brought meinto domestic communion with yourselves, your family connections anddearest intimacies, and have opened to me a little world of friendship andkindness, in which I have enjoyed myself wi
The life and letters of Washington Irving . ing about you for so manydays. And now let me express how much I feel obliged to you and Kennedyfor drawing me forth out of my little country nest, and setting me oncemore in circulation. This has grown out of our fortunate meeting andsojourn together at Saratoga last summer, and I count these occurrencesas among the most pleasant events of my Hfe. They have brought meinto domestic communion with yourselves, your family connections anddearest intimacies, and have opened to me a little world of friendship andkindness, in which I have enjoyed myself with a full heart. God bless you all, and make you as happy as you delight to makeothers. Ever yours, most truly, Washington Irving. CHAPTER XVII. Letter to Mrs. Storrow.—Louis Napoleon and Eugenie Montijo.—Seven-tieth Birthday.—Letter to Hon. Robert C. Wintkrop.— Wilkies Sketch.—Second Letter to Mr. Winthrop.—Letter to Miss Mary E. Kennedy.—Leaves Sunny side on an Excursion.—Letters During his Absence.—Letteron his HE following letter is addressed to , at Paris :— SUNNYSIDE, March 28, 1853. My Dear Sarah :— A letter received from you while I wasat Washington, gave an account of themarriage procession of Louis Napoleonand his bride to the Church of NotreDame, which you saw from a window near1 the Hotel de Ville. One of your recentletters, I am told, speaks of your having been presented to the Empress. I shallsee it when I go to town. Louis Napo-leon and Eugenie Montijo, Emperor andEmpress of France !—one of whom I haveColumbus. had a guest at my cottage on the Hudson; the other, whom, when a child, I have had on my knee at Granada! Itseems to cap the climax of the strange dramas of which Paris has been thetheatre during my lifetime. I have repeatedly thought that each coup de thMtre would be the lastthat would occur in my time; but each has been succeeded by anotherequally striking, and what will be the next, who can conjecture? The las
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