All who saw the youthful patriot perform this touching act were deeply affected." _September 19th._ I don't know whether my letter of yesterday went off or not.

As my messenger to the post-office could get no authentic intelligence about what was passing, I went there myself.

Everybody was in military uniform, everybody was shrugging his shoulders, and everybody was in the condition of a London policeman were he to see himself marched off to the station by a street-sweeper.

That the Prussian should have taken the Emperor prisoner, and have vanquished the French armies, had, of course, astonished these worthy bureaucrats, but that they should have ventured to interfere with postmen had perfectly dumbfounded them.

"Put your letter in that box," said a venerable employe on a high stool.