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A MOTHER'S TRIALS.
While the horses were being harnessed, Moreau wrote the following letter to Madame Clapart:-- My dear,--Oscar has ruined me.

During his journey in Pierrotin's coach, he spoke of Madame de Serizy's behavior to his Excellency, who was travelling incognito, and actually told, to himself, the secret of his terrible malady.

After dismissing me from my stewardship, the count told me not to let Oscar sleep at Presles, but to send him away immediately.

Therefore, to obey his orders, the horses are being harnessed at this moment to my wife's carriage, and Brochon, my stable-man, will take the miserable child to you to-night.
We are, my wife and I, in a distress of mind which you may perhaps imagine, though I cannot describe it to you.