Mashallah A flight into Egypt Author:Charles Warren Stoddard Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: with the fierce rendering of favorite national airs, and attracted the attention of a brace of gendarmes, the handsomest and most elegant fellows in Paris, we co... more »me home to the Mont Blanc, ring up the night-watchman, who sleeps with a rope just over his head, and in his dream pulls the heavy lock on the outer door without waking; pushing in the swinging panel in the great door, the great door which is not opened till morning, we light our respective candles, take keys, and bid farewell to one another and to the frivolities of life in general, and go yawning to our beds. FROM THE LATIN QUARTER. H6iEL Du Mont Blanc, Rue De Seine, Paris. For two months I seem to have been dashed from one extreme to another, through the widest range of experiences I have ever known in so brief a time in a single locality. The Latin Quarter is not in itself altogether lovely; the streets are tangled and narrow and unclean. The houses are mostly ugly. We have the fine church of St. Sulpice only a stone's throw distant, and close at hand is beautiful old St. Germain, the oldest and perhaps most picturesque church in Paris, with its frescoes by that devout Catholic artist, Hippo- lyte Flandrin. Around the corner is the small house with the turret and the grated windows where Charlotte Corday dealt death to Marat; but the whole corner is being swept away to make room for newer and less interesting buildings. All up and down these streets there are shops where antique books, prints, and all manner of bric-a- brac may be bargained for. The Seine is lined with vendors of cheap literature; near St. Sulpice there is an inexhaustible store of sacred prints, medals, rosaries, and church furniture. Indeed, you can get almost anything you wish on our side of the river, and you will get it for half the price...« less