a young girl." M. de Chastellux discovered that the Americans had the bad habit of eating too frequently, and they made him play at whist, with English cards, much handsomer and dearer than were used in Paris, and marked their points with louis d'ors. The stakes however were easy to settle, notwithstanding the addiction of the people of this country to gambling, for the company was still faithful to that voluntary law established in society which prohibited playing for money during the war.

M. Jean Pierre Brissot de Warville followed in a few years, and was not less pleased than the Marquis de Chastellux with the amiable, affable, hospitable people of Boston. Were he to paint all the estimable characters he met in that charming town, he tells us, his portraits would never be finished. The Bostonians were even then somewhat too philosophical in their religion, but they united simplicity of morals with that French politeness and delicacy of manners which rendered virtue most agreeable. They were true friends, tender husbands, almost idolatrous parents, and kind masters. The grim young republican heard in some houses the piano forte, and exclaimed, "God grant that the Boston women may never, like those of Paris, acquire la maladie of perfection in the art of music, which is not to be attained but at the expense of the domestic virtues!" The "demoiselles here had the liberty enjoyed in Geneva, when morals were there, in the time of the republic; and they did not abuse it. Their frank and tender hearts had nothing to fear from the perfidy of men: the vows of love were believed;" and wives, to sum up all, were "occupied in rendering their husbands happy."

* Miss Temple, afterward Mrs. Winthrop, and the mother of the present Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, was brought up in Governor Bowdoin's family, and adopted by him as a daughter. With him she lived during the whole period of the revolution, meeting at his house Franklin and Lafayette, and all the French and American officers of distinction who visited the city. Lafayette was a great admirer of hers, and called often to see her during his last visit to America. She was long the reigning belle of Boston.