The sun rose hot and unclouded, and hot and unclouded it burned on till evening.

All the doors and all the windows were set open, which gave a pleasant sense of summer freedom--and freedom the most complete seemed indeed the order of the day.

Teachers and pupils descended to breakfast in dressing-gowns and curl-papers: anticipating "avec delices" the toilette of the evening, they seemed to take a pleasure in indulging that forenoon in a luxury of slovenliness; like aldermen fasting in preparation for a feast.

About nine o'clock A.M., an important functionary, the "coiffeur," arrived.

Sacrilegious to state, he fixed his head-quarters in the oratory, and there, in presence of _benitier_, candle, and crucifix, solemnised the mysteries of his art.