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AT ROSNY.
The morning brought only fresh proofs of the kindness which M.de Rosny had conceived for me.

Awaking early I found on a stool beside my clothes, a purse of gold containing a hundred crowns; and a youth presently entering to ask me if I lacked anything, I had at first some difficulty in recognising Simon Fleix, so sprucely was the lad dressed, in a mode resembling Maignan's.

I looked at the student more than once before I addressed him by his name; and was as much surprised by the strange change I observed in him for it was not confined to his clothes--as by anything which had happened since I entered the house.

I rubbed my eyes, and asked him what he had done with his soutane.