Alfred; or, The Adventures of a French Gentleman — page 274: what you’re looking at

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OF A FRENCH GENTLEMAN. De Wl centre of all that is polite, learned, luxurious, and dissipated. In the cafés and at the tables d’héte of the various hotels, Jeannette speedily procured for herself a hearty welcome by the melody of her voice and her blameless character; and not long after the birth of his second child, our hero recognised the songstress in the Café de Paris, where he happened to be dining with a party of friends. ; What more have we to relate? France appreciates the blessings of peace, of national freedom, of just laws, and of a virtuous monarch. She no longer sighs for empty glories and vain honours. She has united her hand to that of England—the two puissant sovereigns have allied their respective forees—and nought but the most beneficial results can ensue. Let us therefore hope for a per- manent establishment of those bounties wnich peace and tran- quillity shed around ; and let us not wish to see the bloody standards of war again raised amongst civilized and enlightened nations. li if |e al ii | | Figs : ' 7 f i; - 1111 1\5 UREA ES bd Sh? nt j J ye. / 4 veto ij ' “ ¥ Gomichbooksneom