"It may easily be that," replied she; "at least, for all I saw of London."
"That was not much, certainly," answered the gentleman, smiling. "But you'll see Paris under different circumstances."
"Is it on our road?" said she.
"Why, to say the truth," returned he, "it did not make much difference, and I thought it a pity to lose the opportunity, so here we are!"
"In Paris?" said she.
"In Paris," returned he; "where I think we may kill a little time pleasantly enough. You must not judge by what you've seen yet," added he, observing that the impression made by the dirty streets and dim lights was not altogether favourable. "You'll see things under a different aspect to-morrow. Besides, we are not in the fashionable quarter, exactly."
"I should like to live in the fashionable quarter," observed the lady, "if we are to make any stay."
"By all means," replied the gentleman. "It's precisely what I intend. There is no place in the world where beauty sooner attracts notice than in Paris, especially foreign beauty. It has
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