"All the people seem with broken hearts--it takes all spirit out of me.

I cannot even hawk needles and pins among the starving--who would buy ?" I could only say, "How dreadful is this place! The Lord seems to have forsaken his sanctuary." "Let us seek another place as soon as we can--" "You forget: I am to be met here by an agent of my father's at La Boule d'Or." "Ah, well, we will go thither." When we drove into the inn-yard, however, we could hear unruly voices in the house, and feared we might fall into bad company.

A man immediately came up to us, and said to me, in a low voice: "Are you M.Jacques Bonneval ?" "I am.

Are you Antoine Leroux ?" "Hist!--yes.

There are ill-disposed people in the inn; you had better not go in-doors.