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bust of himself, made not two years since;
his mother's picture; that of his niece,
Madame Denis; his brother, M. Dupuis;
the Calas family, and others. It is a
very neat and elegant house, not large,
nor affectedly decorated.
I should first have remarked, that close
to the chapel, between that and the
house, is the theatre, which he built
some years ago; where he treated his
friends with some of his own tragedies:
it is now only used as a receptacle for
wood and lumber, there having been no
play acted in it these four years. The
servant told me his master was seventy-
eight, but very well. "Il travaille," said
he "pendant dix heures chaque jour." He
studies ten hours every day; writes con-
stantly without spectacles, and walks out
with only a domestic, often a mile or
two--"Et la viola, lˆ bas!--and see,
yonder where he is.
He was going to his workmen. My
heart leaped at the sight of so extraordi-
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