Transcribe Arink, Ellen M. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1855-12-01)

so of course re accepted the offer, and went , and there he is, professing finely. I believe I will cease these petty details this home tattle, to ask a few questions respecting you, & your surroundings. Have you seen the Emperor? and Eugenie? and is the former a profound unfathomable - looking man, as they report him? and is the later so very, very beautiful? Louis Napoleon is to me a wonder and a mystery - at present an actual world - hero- the great centre of all political influ- ence in the hemisphere of your pre- sent shade - and yet I think him about the greatest scamp [?] Devoid of principle, crafty, designing, unscrupulous - how is it he can flourish as he does! and poor duped England, consents to be his tool, and plays the sycophant, To reap hereafter the bitter fossils - shame, disappoint- ment and vision - oh my poor, de- lured country! how I pity her! - Did I say that Charley Wadsworth's name figures largely in Uncle F's new work?