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1837. _ place, sud fell close to the smokers, upsetting the content?
Zr. 83, of the panniers upon their mats, The boy immediately set
to work shovelling up the sand with his hands, and scraping
it as well as he could from amongst their legs, and having
loaded his donkey, he cantered away. Not a word or look
passed between him and the smokers, who never moved from
their seats; and two hours afterwards I passed by them
when their posture was precigely the same, and their leg?
were still surrounded “~ the remains of the load of sand | *
Smyrna, Feb, 244% *°37,—« The house in which I am stay”
ing is a large, elegant'v-furnished one, and the management
is of the solid kind w*!~i: Xr, Rhoades’ establishment used 0
be characterized by.* Old, queer-looking servants trot about
large corridors ; there are rooms for Monsieur, snuggerie#
for Madame, little retreats for visitors, in one of which I am
sitting, writing; and all have good, substantial fires, In
the evening after a six o’clock dinner, parties of ladies walk
in without ceremony ; they and the young gentlemen of the
house, with Madame W—— (who does not speak English),
sit down to the faro-table, around which you soon hear 8
babel of tongues, English, French, Greek, and Italian, whilst
Mr. W—— and I cause over Russian politics or political
economy. One by one the company disappears, after taking
a cup of coffee the size of a pigeon’s egg; and so noiseless
and little ceremonious are their appearances and disappearances,
 that a spectator would imagine the visitors to be
members of the family, who joined each other from different
parts of this great house to an evening’s amusement, and then
retired again for the night to their several apartments. Thif
8 visiting as it should be done”
The following extracts from his journal may serve to show
the chief topics of conversation in these very useful visits :—
Smyrna, Feb, 3rd.—* At Mr, Crespin’s, in a conversatio?
¥ Mr. Rhoades was the husband of ona of his année.