The eminently
practical suggestions which you made to me so kindly and
freely, as we parted, have, indeed, also proved
themselves undoubtedly to be of even the first import.
It has to me been also, indeed, of the very first
pleasure to communicate them, as I said indeed, to the
first director in charge at the works at Sevres, as I
passed through Paris, and now yet again, with equal
precision also and readiness, to the Herr first fabricant
at Dresden. Your statement regarding the action of the
oxides of gold, in combination with the tungstate of
bdellium, has more than in practice verified itself. I
am requested by the authorities at Dresden to ask the
acceptance, by your accomplished and highly respected
lady, of a dinner-set of their recent manufacture, in
token small of their appreciation, renewed daily, of your
contribution so valuable to the resources of tint and
color in their rooms of design; and M. Foudroyant, of
Sevres, tells me also, by telegraph of to-day, that to
the same much esteemed and highly distinguished lady he
has shipped by the `San Laurent' a tea-service, made to
the order of the Empress of China, and delayed only by
the untoward state of hostilities, greatly to be
regretted, on the Annamite frontier.'"
Mr. Starr read this long-winded letter with
astonishment.
"Well, Dulcinea, you will be able to give a dinner-
party to the King of Spain when he comes to visit you at
Toboso.
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