I know what that means already.

All I ask is that my letters should be put up in a balloon.

As for passes, I have one already, and it has not been of the slightest service to me.

_Les Nouvelles_ heads an article "English Spies," and proposes that to simplify the question of whether they are spies or not, all English in Paris should at once be shot.

I cannot say that I personally have found any ill-feeling to exist against me because I am an Englishman.
Yesterday afternoon I was in a crowd, and some one suggested that I was a spy; I immediately mounted on a chair and explained that I was a "journaliste Anglais," and pointed out to my friends that they ought to be obliged to me for remaining here.