Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

EXCURSION TO PARIS 179gladly show us all. Building seems totally empty : apolice station in some corner of it, that is all. GardeMobile lived in it in 1848, before that it was a convent(under the Bourbons)-;Napoleon had already muchaltered it ; filled up (comhle) one storey of it, in orderto make a piece d'eau (not quite dry) in the garden.Old trees still up to their armpits there : a very strangeproceeding for a piece d'eau!Damp, brown, and dismal,all these emptinesses ;grass growing on thepavements ; big halls within (a grand royal hotel once,after the Templars ceased from it) ; on the secondfloor (once third ?) the royal _pmo?i-apartments,religiously kept, are still there. Marie Antoinette'soratoire ; the place of Clery's scene of adieu : a grimlocality indeed !Garde Mobile had drawn emblematicfigures with burnt stick, in a few instances they hadtorn the walls, and made ugly big gaps with theirbayonets. Our old concierge called the primitive republicans(in reference to Louis) 'gueux,'—she seemedof royalist disposition,— cut us off a bit of room-paperfor souvenir, accepted our three francs with manycourtesies, and so we left the Temple, a memorablescene in one's archives.Bronze-dealer next, manufacturer rather,—thegreatest (soi-disant) de I'univers : Lord Ashburton inwant of such things went in, I with him, and we walkedthrough various long suites, of pendules, statuettes,chandeliers, &c., &c.,— an ardent, greedy, acrid-lookingperson (he of ' I'univers ') escorting us ; almost frantic