Once I wass young.

Should I see that little shoe I think myself of the time when I wass young, and made studies--_Ach, Mein Gott!_--also of the species of woman! I, too, saw it fly from me, my _Stella Terrae!_" We walked, my friend still musing and babbling, myself still anxious and uneasy.

We turned out of narrow Notre Dame Street, and into St.Lawrence Main Street.

As we strolled I noted without much interest the motley life about me, picturesque now with the activities of the advancing spring.

Presently, however, my idle gaze was drawn to two young Englishmen whose bearing in some way gave me the impression that they belonged in official or military life, although they were in civilian garb.
Presently the two halted, and separated.