The Gobelin tapestry.--How and where it is made.--Père La-Chaise.--Poor Rachel!--The baby establishment.--"Now I lay me."--The little mother.--The old woman who lived in a shoe.--The American chapel.--Beautiful women and children.--The last conference meeting.--"I'm a proof-reader, I am." 90 CHAPTER VIII. SHOW PLACES IN THE SUBURBS OF PARIS. The river omnibuses.--Sèvres and its porcelain.--St. Cloud as it was.--The crooked little town.-- Versailles.--Eugenie's "spare bedroom."--The queen who played she was a farmer's wife.--Seven miles of paintings.--The portraits of the presidents. 100 CHAPTER IX. A VISIT TO BRUSSELS. To Brussels.--The old and new city.--The paradise and purgatory of dogs.--The Hôtel de Ville and Grand Place.--St. Gudule.--The picture galleries.--Wiertz and his odd paintings.--Brussels lace and an hour with the lace-makers.--How the girls found Charlotte Brontë's school.--The scene of "Villette." 109 CHAPTER X. WATERLOO AND THROUGH BELGIUM. To Waterloo.--Beggars and guides.--The Mound.--Chateau Hougomont.--Victor Hugo's "sunken road."--Antwerp.--A visit to the cathedral.--A drive about the city.--An excursion to Ghent.--The funeral services in the cathedral.--"Poisoned? Ah, poor man!"--The watch-tower.--The Friday-market square.--The nunnery.--Longfellow's pilgrims to "the belfry of Bruges." 122 CHAPTER XI. A TRIP THROUGH HOLLAND. Up the Meuse to Rotterdam.--Dutch sights and ways.--The pretty milk-carriers.--The tea-gardens.--Preparations for the Sabbath.--An English chapel.--"The Lord's barn."--From Rotterdam to the Hague.--The queen's "House in the Wood."--Pictures in private drawing-rooms.--The bazaar.--An evening in a Dutch tea-garden.--Amsterdam to a stranger.--The "sights."--The Jews' quarter.--The family whose home was upon the canals.--Out of the city.--The pilgrims. 134 CHAPTER XII. THE RHINE AND RHENISH PRUSSIA.