, Lanjuinais, &c., until she
fortunately recollected that the climate of Paris is one that "developes
a sensibility prompt, not deep." Lucky thought! She immediately threw
down the visiting-book, threw up the window to let in the climate, wiped
from her eyes the tears "which parted thence, as pearls from diamonds
dropp'd," and began to think of "all that death had left her, of the
'greater still behind,'--of friends, each in his way, a specimen of that
genius and virtue, which, in all regions, and in all ages, make the _ne
plus ultra_ of human excellence." Admire the delicacy of the method by
which Miladi lets us into the secret of her being a _ne plus ultra_; it
is not by a bold assertion, but by a modest inuendo. She keeps company
with _ne plus ultras_--birds of the same feather flock together--ergo,
she is a _ne plus ultra_ herself. And so she is, but in her own way.
"_Il y a malheureusement_," observes a French writer of the present day
"_plus d'une maniere de se rendre celebre_,"--"there is, unfortunately,
more than one method of becoming celebrated,"--and as this writer is an
acquaintance of Lady Morgan, we are half inclined to think he committed
that sentence to paper after returning from a visit to _her_
Celebrityship.

We may as well cite here a few more instances of her ingenuity in
communicating, obliquely, how distinguished a personage she is,--a
quality she possesses in a degree that we do not recollect ever to have
seen rivalled. We copy _verbatim_.

"The other day I dined in the Chaussee d'Antin, in that house
where it is always such a privilege to dine; where the wit of
the host, like the _menus_ of his table, combines all that is
best in French or Irish peculiarity; _and where the society is
chosen with reference to no other qualities than merit and
agreeability_."

Speaking of the weekly assemblies at an eminent individual's house, at
which she was a constant attendant, she says, they

"Are among the most select and remarkable in Paris.
Inaccessible to _commonplace mediocrity and pushing
pretension_, their visitor must be _ticketted_ in some way or
another" (by writing a "France," or an "Italy," for instance,)
"to obtain a presentation."

With regard to another circle of which she was a large segment, she
observes,--

"It is sufficient to have merit, agreeability, or the claims of
old acquaintance to belong to it, but, truth to te