And what they could not eat that nightAmong the friends of that winter were Sarah and William Clarke, sister and brother of the Rev. James Freeman Clarke. It was in their company that Margaret Fuller made the journey recorded in her ‘Summer on the Lakes.’ Both were devoted to her memory. I afterwards learned that William Clarke considered her the good genius of his life, her counsel and encouragement
The queen next morning fried.
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Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano.
My sister was in consequence invited more than once to the Bonaparte palace.
The father of the family was Prince Charles Bonaparte, who married his cousin, Princess Zenaide.
She had passed some years at the Bonaparte villa in Bordentown, N. J., the American residence of her father, Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Spain.
This princess, who was tant soit peu gourmande, said one day to my sister, ‘What good things they have for breakfast in America!
I still remember those hot cakes.’
The conversation was reported to me, and I managed, with the assistance of the helper brought from home, to send the princess a very excellent bannock of Indian meal, of which she afterwards said, ‘It was so good that we ate what was left of it on the second day.’
This reminds me of a familiar couplet:—
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