9/12 "I have seen never a hopeful face, save that of one of my own countrymen. You are not afraid of a crack on your curly pate, are you ?" "Curly or not, my head knows better than to knock itself against Paris walls. They are thick, and high, and the windows of every house on the wall are piled with stones, to drop upon us. And I know not well why, but things go ill with us. I never saw Her," and he nodded towards the open gateway, "so out of comfort. |