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- He met Miss Hyall who insisted on one going at once home with her, & we found Mama in the third story of a very pretty house on one of the best streets. They gave me a very attractive idea of German housekeeping or room keeping - much more cosy & comfortable than all the glass & gilding of the French, and above all more hospitable. Miss H _ is what we Yankees call a smart agreeable girl, and decidedly stylish looking. She is very anxious to find a situation as governess in Paris & I hope to be able to assist her - she would accept 200 a year & travelling expenses paid, in a family where she was entirely as "one of them." I was pleased with the grave yard attached to St Peters Church. - It looked as if tended by loving hands, & less gloomy than almost any place of the kind I have ever seen - while there I read Annie's letter that Mr B - had just found at our bankers - it told me of Aunt Eliza Tunis's death for which
Part of Jane Bigelow Diary, 1859-1860