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everything seemed to indicate comfort and satisfaction. The
workman of Paris is a gentleman in the best sense of the word.
He feels free, independent, and proud in theconsciousness that
he is a parjt of the state. Soldiers were no longer to be seen
in the city; they being garrisoned at Versailles and other
neighboring cities; still there has never before been such a
feeling of profound peace and security in France. Liberty is
a great educator. The style, name, and other indications
of the empire are passing awav, and the republic has put its
stamp 011 Paris. The commune is no longer feared, for the
state is no longer an enemy of the people, but a protector of
its rights and liberty. Fortunate Paris! Happy France!
But I must hurry on, in order to reach the end of my long
journey. On the 13th of September I saw the majestic Alps
with their snow-clad summits, which seemed to touch the
very vault of heaven. The same day I passed through the
tunnel at Mont Cenis, and arrived the following day at
Rome, via Turin and Florence. And is this great and
glorious Rome? Yes! These walls, ruins, palaces, and Sabine
hills,— aye, the very air I breathe,— all this belongs to the
eternal city. From the window of my room in Hotel
Malori I can read the signs,— "Via di Capo le Care," "Via
Gregoriana," etc., and among these an index pointing to the
Rome and Tivoli street-car line. Indeed, I have seen the
great city of Rome, with its churches, statues, paintings,
and ancient ruins and catacombs; the little monument to
the Swedish Oueen Christina in the St. Peter’s church; the
triumphal arch which commemorates the destruction of
Jerusalem, and the temple of Vesta where the ancient vestal
virgins guarded the sacred fire. Two thousand years thus
passed in review before my eyes in a few days.
From Rome I proceeded to Naples. This city is built on
the most beautiful bay in the world, and has a population
of six hundred thousand inhabitants. It is built in the form
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