These phenomena are not more extraordinary than those of memory; and those of memory are quite as amazing and inexplicable as those of the perfume of plants--which are perhaps the ideas of the plants." "How you enlarge and magnify the world!" exclaimed Ursula.

"But to hear the dead speak, to see them walk, act--do you think it possible ?" "In Sweden," replied the abbe, "Swedenborg has proved by evidence that he communicated with the dead.

But come with me into the library and you shall read in the life of the famous Duc de Montmorency, beheaded at Toulouse, and who certainly was not a man to invent foolish tales, an adventure very like yours, which happened a hundred years earlier at Cardan." Ursula and the abbe went upstairs, and the good man hunted up a little edition in 12mo, printed in Paris in 1666, of the "History of Henri de Montmorency," written by a priest of that period who had known the prince.
"Read it," said the abbe, giving Ursula the volume, which he had opened at the 175th page.

"Your godfather often re-read that passage,--and see! here's a little of his snuff in it." "And he not here!" said Ursula, taking the volume to read the passage.
"The siege of Privat was remarkable for the loss of a great number of officers.

Two brigadier-generals died there--namely, the Marquis d'Uxelles, of a wound received at the outposts, and the Marquis de Portes, from a musket-shot through the head.