My mind is wearied with my evening's work, and will see things to-morrow more clearly than to-day." And upon this recommendation, made to himself, he folded his cloak around him, looking with contempt upon his royal neighbor.

Five minutes after this he was asleep, with his hands clenched and his lips apart, giving escape, not to his secret, but to a sonorous sound, which rose and spread freely beneath the majestic roof of the ante-chamber..