Strange ways.--"The bears that went over to Charlestown."--The delights of a runaway without its dangers.--Flower show at the Crystal Palace.--Whit-Monday at Hampton Court.--A queen baby.--"But the carpets?"--Poor Nell Gwynne.--Vandyck faces.--Royal beds.--Lunch at the King's Arms.--O Music, how many murders have been committed in thy name!--Queen Victoria's home at Windsor.--A new "house that Jack built."--The Round Tower.--Stoke Pogis.--Frogmore.--The Knights of the Garter.--The queen's gallery.--The queen's plate.--The royal mews.--The wicker baby-wagons.--The state equipages. 43 CHAPTER IV. SIGHT-SEEING IN LONDON. The Tower.--The tall Yankee of inquiring mind.--Our guide in gorgeous array.--War trophies.--Knights in armor.--A professional joke.--The crown jewels.--The room where the little princes were smothered.--The "Traitor's Gate."--The Houses of Parliament.--What a throne is like.--The "woolsack."--The Peeping Gallery for ladies.--Westminster Hall and the law courts.--The three drowsy old women.--The Great Panjandrum himself.--Johnson and the pump.--St. Paul's.--Wellington's funeral car.--The Whispering Gallery.--The bell. 55 CHAPTER V. AWAY TO PARIS. The wedding party.--The canals.--New Haven.--Around the tea-table.--Separating the sheep from the goats.--"Will it be a rough passage?"--Gymnastic feats of the little steamer.--O, what were officers to us?--"Who ever invented earrings?"--Dieppe.-- Fish-wives.--Train for Paris.--Fellow-passengers.-- Rouen.--Babel.--Deliverance. 68 CHAPTER VI. THE PARIS OF 1869. The devil.--Cathedrals and churches.--The Louvre.--Modern French art.--The Beauvais clock, with its droll, little puppets.--Virtue in a red gown.--The Luxembourg Palace.--The yawning statue of Marshal Ney.--Gay life by gas-light.--The Imperial Circus.--The Opera.--How the emperor and empress rode through the streets after the riots.--The beautiful Spanish woman whose face was her fortune.--Napoleon's tomb. 76 CHAPTER VII. SIGHTS IN THE BEAUTIFUL CITY.