One would say that the floor burned your feet, and that you could not endure being in this room." "I allow that I long to leave this--what shall I say ?--this shop, lair, or den." "You are young, monsieur; it never does to hurry; haste causes us acts of forgetfulness that we afterwards regret.

You would be sorry not to take away with you these two scraps of paper." At these words he drew from his note-book two letters, which he unfolded.
"Is there much more ?" demanded Camille.

"I fear that I shall become short of funds, and be obliged to go back for more." "Ah! these two letters, I will not part with them for a trifle, the second especially.

It is only twelve lines in length; but what pretty English handwriting! Only see! and the style is loving and tender.

I will add that it is signed.