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Bubbles And Ballast, Being A Description Of Life In Paris During The Brilliant Days Of Empire

Chapter 21

CHAPTER XXI.

Scene on the English Channel — London — Charing Cross Ho- tel — Houses of Parliament— Westminster Abbey— Mme.
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Tussaud’s Wax- works — Kings and Queens, and some of America's Statesmen — The Chamber of Ijprrors, and the Happy Ignorance of an Irish Woman — The Crystal Palace, and a Grand Operatic Concert — Titiens, and other Singers of Her Majesty’s Opera — The English Women — A Restau- rant without Waiters — Pyrotechnic Display in the Gardens — Preaching by Spurgeon — Music at Westminster, - - 332