E, a small boat with a shoulder-of-mutt

Nique and infinitely touching
in this bursting out, though but for a short time, of the slumbering
fires of an older society, from underneath the heaps of hard and alien
material which
had gone far to extinguish every spark of gentleness and refinement. The
relics of families--their
hearts still bleeding from their wounds--came to forget, if possible,
the terrible past, and indulge
their quiet hopes for the future. Very soon, indeed, the dream was
dispelled; the tyranny proved to some unbearable;
and some it vanquished in their highest part--their inward

conscience--making them subservient when they might have
shunned the danger altogether. But while the quiet interval lasted, it
was like an Indian summer, prolonging the intellectual and tasteful
beauty which was soon to be overwhelmed by the vulgar
splendours of the Empire. The greatest loss this circle could
have had was the first. Mme de Beaumont died at Rome in 1804--attended
only by Chateaubriand--who has given an account of the closing scene
in his memoirs, and thenceforth it does not appear that
the same society reassembled. But another and third edition of the
salon, under Mme de Stael, was witnessed
at the Restoration. Hitherto we have sketched from Mme Sophie Gay's
pictures. At this period, she declares herself unable to bear the
mortification
of mingling with the public of Paris: she could not see
the Co