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On the sidewalk, near Soi 43 where he happened to be passing, lightning refracted from the pavement and his sad solitary figure on this King's birthday/Father's Day was lit in flashes of eerie spotlight.
Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and, with a touch of human relenting, remarks, "one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero;" and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth, Rome and eloquence have ebbed away, it is plain theologic Swedenborg, like the rest. His heavens and hells are dull; fault of want of individualism.
In truth, Napoleon had exasperated the Spaniards no less than their soi disant king, by a series of provocations extending over the year 1810. On May 29th he withdrew Burgos and Valladolid from Joseph's control, and divided the greater part of Spain for military and administrative purposes into districts that were French satrapies in all but name.
Well, this gentleman at the Lakes is, as we suspected, the identical Mr. Spencer, and his soi- disant nephew, Camilla's suitor, is assuredly no other than the lost Sidney. The moment I saw the young man I recognised him, for he is very little altered, and has a great look of his mother into the bargain. Concealing my more than suspicions, I, however, took care to sound Mr. Spencer seems convinced.
[Footnote 3: Dit qu'il avoit en soi des choses qui n'appartenoient de scavoir
We learn to live with her, as people learn to live with fretful or violent spouses: we dwell lovingly on what is good, and shut our eyes against all that is bleak or inharmonious. We learn, also, to come to each place in the right spirit. The traveller, as Brantome quaintly tells us, 'fait des discours en soi pour se soutenir en chemin.
"Ca s'arrange très-joliment, Monsieur," said the man, grinning from ear to ear, and bowing to the ground. "C'est Madame, que vous voulez donc?" "Oui," said I. He led, I followed; he opened the door of a breakfast parlour "tenez, Madame, voici le Monsieur que m'a renversé hier au soi." Eugenia was seated on a sofa, with her boy by her side, the loveliest little fellow I had ever beheld.
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