[20] When we used to work at beads, the French girls were very fond of taking our horsehair, etc. If we discovered them they used to call us every name they could think of, 'Diable,' 'Menteuse,' etc.
[21] The French girls seemed very ignorant; one of them (Mademoiselle Josephe) of thirteen or fourteen, on being asked what an active verb was, replied, 'Un verbe actif c'est un verbe passif.' Another, on being asked what map the map of Africa was, answered, 'C'est Amérique.'
[22] A common refreshment in French parties; and a favourite medicine also (eau sucrée).
[23] The French millers wear very large, curious hats.
[24] We saw a monkey in the opposite balcony which played a number of tricks.
[25] One Sunday, when papa was at Paris, he counted nineteen places of public amusement open; on another seventeen, besides many for the lower classes.
[26] The milliners'shops are very ugly, but there are some very pretty things in the others, particularly little dolls' chairs, etc., of mother-of-pearl and gold, and flowers at the bottom. We saw some pretty clocks; also a snuffer dish and a pair of snuffers covered with flowers under glass.
[27] The girls think of their dresses for weeks before.
[28] They spoil them very much in some things, but they are not near so kind to them as the English.
[29] I never felt anything but dull air in France; while we were at Versailles six French people killed themselves.