The things we do!

But there is none of the fun going on which Scott describes. The laquais
de place says Charles X. put an end to it all.
"Next morning the governor had letters to deliver after breakfast, and
left me at the Louvre door. I shall come and live here, I think. I feel
as if I never want to go away. I had not been ten minutes in the place
before I fell in love with the most beautiful creature the world has ever
seen. She was standing silent and majestic in the centre of one of the
rooms of the statue-gallery; and the very first glimpse of her struck one
breathless with the sense of her beauty. I could not see the colour of
her eyes and hair exactly, but the latter is light, and the eyes I should
think are grey. Her complexion is of a beautiful warm marble tinge. She
is not a clever woman, evidently; I do not think she laughs or talks
much--she seems too lazy to do more than smile. She is only beautiful.
This divine creature has lost an arm, which has been cut off at the
shoulder, but she looks none the less lovely for the accident.


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