be very sprightly. The buildings are very magnificent,
far surpassing any we have in London. Mr Selwin has
recommended a French master to me, and in a few days
I begin to ride in the Academy, but must dance and
fence in my own lodgings. Lord Albemarle [the British
ambassador] is come from Fontainebleau. I have very
good reason to be pleased with the reception I met
with. The best amusement for strangers in Paris is
the Opera, and the next is the playhouse. The theatre
is a school to acquire the French language, for which
reason I frequent it more than the other.

In Paris he met young Philip Stanhope, the boy to whom
the Earl of Chesterfield wrote his celebrated letters;
'but,' says Wolfe, 'I fancy he is infinitely inferior to
his father.' Keeping fit, as we call it nowadays, seems
to have been Wolfe's first object. He took the same care
of himself as the Japanese officers did in the
Russo-Japanese War; and for the same reason, that he
might be the better able to serve his country well the
next time she needed him. Writing to his mother he says:

I am up every morning at or before seven and fully
employed till twelve. Then I dress and visit, and dine
at two. At five most people go to the public
entertainments, which keep you till nine; and at eleven
I am always in bed. This way of living is directly
opposite to the practice of the place. But no
constitution could go through all. Four or five days
in the week I am up six hours before any other fine