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The Duke of Hereward is living in Paris, at Meurice's. I will make the correction," said Mr. Setter, drawing from his pocket a lead pencil and a blank-book, upon a leaf of which he re-wrote the message. Come immediately. "JOHN SCOTT, Convent of St. Rosalie, L'Ange." "That will do," said Mr. Setter, inspecting his work.
We stepped outside upon the pavement, and I confess that even I could not understand everything that was said by the crowd and the coachmen. But Kurz Pacha led the way to a carriage, and we drove off to Meurice's. "It's awful, isn't it?" said Mr. Potiphar, panting. But before the door of the carriage was opened, Mr.
Oh! it's inexpressibly delightful. Everybody but poor Mr. Potiphar! He has a terrible time of it. When we arrived we alighted at Meurice's, all the fashionable people do; at least Gauche Boosey said Lord Brougham did, for he used to read it in Galignani and I suppose it is fashionable to do as Lord Brougham does. D'Orsay Firkin said that the Hotel Bristol was more recherche.
On September 25th they reached Paris. Carlyle joined the Ashburtons at Meurice's Hotel; there dined, went in the evening to the Theatre Francais, cursed the play, and commented unpleasantly on General Changarnier sitting in the stalls. During the next few days he met many of the celebrities of the time, and caricatured, after his fashion, their personal appearance, talk, and manner.
The next day the duke set out on his return to Paris, and on the fourth evening thereafter found himself re-established at his comfortable quarters at Meurice's. He changed his dress, dined, and ordered the files of English and French newspapers for the past week to be brought to him.
Soon after this incident, my friend accompanied the lady to Paris, where they took up their residence at Meurice's, in the Rue de l'Echiquier. The day after their arrival, they went out to take a walk in the Palais Royal, and were followed by a half-pay officer of Napoleon's army, Colonel D. a notorious duellist, who observed to the people about him that he was going to bully "un Anglais."
I spoke four times, once from the balcony of a cafe and thrice from my carriage. When I took leave of this ever-growing crowd, which escorted me to Paul Meurice's, in the Avenue Frochot, I said to the people: "In one hour you repay me for twenty years of exile." They sang the "Marseillaise" and the "Chant du Depart." They shouted: "Long live Victor Hugo!"
You can see him in Richepins's Nana Sahib or Meurice's Schamyl." "He would make a lot of money! replied Madame Caterna. "He just would I believe you, Caroline!" replied the enthusiastic actor. And for him, as for all other theatrical folks, is not the money the most serious and the least disputable manifestation of the dramatic art?
The room which I occupy is not furnished in a dashing style, nor has it a parquet ciré, but it is on the first floor, and thrice as large and lofty and half as dear as that I had at Meurice's on the quatrième; and a Titan might stretch himself down at ease on the bed in which I sleep. Gargantua would cry for mercy. For all this, and a bottle of wine, I pay three francs.
The becraped passage at Meurice's alluded to a little back was of a later season, and the radiation, as I recall it, had been, that first winter, mainly from a petit hôtel somewhere "on the other side," as we used with a large sketchiness to say, of the Champs Elysées; a region at that time reduced to no regularity, but figuring to my fond fancy as a chaos of accidents and contrasts where petits hôtels of archaic type were elbowed by woodyards and cabarets, and pavilions ever so characteristic, yet ever so indefinable, snuggled between frank industries and vulgarities all brightened these indeed by the sociable note of Paris, be it only that of chaffering or of other bavardise.
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