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Updated: May 1, 2025
It was seething and bubbling that night, although neither the Leares nor myself were aware of what was brewing. The talk was all about the Banquets, especially the impending reform banquet in the Rue Chaillot.
"The Leares are rolling in riches, I believe," remarked my father, "and an American who is rich has no hereditary obligations to absorb his wealth, so that it becomes all 'spending-money, as Miss Hermione says. The head of the family King Leare I call him stays at home in some sort of a counting-room in New York and makes money, giving Mrs.
I was in the streets till five o'clock on Wednesday, when, concluding all was over, I came home, intending to make another effort to see the Leares, and if possible to take Miss Hermione, with Ellen and Lætitia, to view the debris of the two days' fight to let them get their first glimpse of real war in the Place de la Concorde, where a regiment was littering down its horses for the night, and a peep into the closed gardens of the Tuileries.
At length, to my great relief, we saw a carriage before us; and we drove into the railway-station at the same moment as the Leares. Before the ladies could alight I was beside the window of their carriage. "You here, Mr. Farquhar?" cried Hermione. "How good of you! You cannot guess the relief. Help me to get them out, these helpless ones." We lifted Mrs.
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