22/50 "Where is the guard? "You wish then to kill it," said Esquiros. Some of them were dejected; Bourbousson maintained the silence of a vanquished placeman. Another, the Viscount of -- --, a relative of the Duke of Escars, was so alarmed that every moment he adjourned to a corner of the courtyard. In the crowd which filled the courtyard there was a _gamin_ of Paris, a child of Athens, who has since become am elegant and charming poet, Albert Glatigny. |