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350 MR. BUCHANAN’S IMPORTATIONS.
nour of a call, evidently for the purpose of learn-
ing my movements for the rest of the season. The
conversation turned on the beauty of the south at
this season of the year ; and fearing that my
views might have been directed towards Flanders
or Holland, he strongly recommended my seeing
the banks of the Loire before leaving France,
especially as the vintage was fast approaching. I
told him that I had long intended to make an
excursion to Orleans, Tours, &c. and had some
thoughts of going there before returning to Eng-
land. This seemed to quiet his suspicions of
finding me a competitor in the north; for having
so recently purchased the Talleyrand collection,
which excited some degree of jealousy among
the Parisians, he imagined to find me his oppo-
nent also in Flanders and Holland. I inquired
where he meant to spend the autumn; when he
said he was going in the course of a short time,
on account of his health, to drink the mineral
waters of Mont-d’Or. After some farther conver-
sation upon indifferent matters, he then took his
leave of me, and we parted, wishing each other
bonne sente et un bon voyage.
“ Having learned that much interest was likely
to be excited among the amateurs in this quarter,
and hearing that it was the intention of Monsieur
le R. and some of his friends to leave Paris in the
nour of a call, evidently for the purpose of learn-
ing my movements for the rest of the season. The
conversation turned on the beauty of the south at
this season of the year ; and fearing that my
views might have been directed towards Flanders
or Holland, he strongly recommended my seeing
the banks of the Loire before leaving France,
especially as the vintage was fast approaching. I
told him that I had long intended to make an
excursion to Orleans, Tours, &c. and had some
thoughts of going there before returning to Eng-
land. This seemed to quiet his suspicions of
finding me a competitor in the north; for having
so recently purchased the Talleyrand collection,
which excited some degree of jealousy among
the Parisians, he imagined to find me his oppo-
nent also in Flanders and Holland. I inquired
where he meant to spend the autumn; when he
said he was going in the course of a short time,
on account of his health, to drink the mineral
waters of Mont-d’Or. After some farther conver-
sation upon indifferent matters, he then took his
leave of me, and we parted, wishing each other
bonne sente et un bon voyage.
“ Having learned that much interest was likely
to be excited among the amateurs in this quarter,
and hearing that it was the intention of Monsieur
le R. and some of his friends to leave Paris in the