A Garde National replied, "Of course there are brave men amongst us, but the mass will give in rather than see Paris destroyed.

They have their families and their shops." "And the Mobiles ?" "The Mobiles are the stuff out of which soldiers are made, but they are still peasants, and not soldiers yet." On the whole, I found the tone in "fashionable circles" desponding.

"Can any one tell me where Jules Favre has gone ?" I asked.

Nobody could, though everybody seemed to think that he had gone to the Prussian headquarters.

After playing a few rubbers, I went home to bed at about one o'clock.