"My friends! Do they not know me?
Do they not see me?
Alas! they fear to catch the contagion of my----.

Then," said he, "adieu!--'tis more than I can bear.

I shall go to my country seat, and never, never will return.

Adieu, fond court, adieu!--" The venerable Marquis de Bellecourt stopped for a moment ere he entered his carriage.

Thrice he looked back, and thrice he wiped the starting tear from his eye.