Many of these were relics of the Latin Quarter, and I must do Pinkerton the justice to say that none of them were bad, and some had remarkable merit.

They went off slowly but for handsome figures; and their places were progressively supplied with the work of local artists.

These last it was one of my first duties to review and criticise.

Some of them were villainous, yet all were saleable.

I said so; and the next moment saw myself, the figure of a miserable renegade, bearing arms in the wrong camp.