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A NIGHT'S LODGING IN PARIS
The followin'! lulu was mid to the wri
ter ot these lino#, some years aim, by the
person to whom the events therein naira
-1...1 occurred. The writer immediately
eommitted the story to paper. Though
p or ,] never showed any morbid
horror at the possibility of general con
versation turning on topics which might
remind him of the strange incident,in hi#
life which forfns the subject ot the narra
tive, lie was naturally desirous that the
matter should be, as far as could be, con
lined to the. circle of bis immediate friends.
As lie is now dead, ajpinas left no very
n.-ar relatives, there can be little danger ot
causing distress to any one by the publica
tion ot his story. The names are. of
course, suppressed. ,The tale is told, as
lav as possible, in Lord
words
In 18—, before I had taken my degree
in Oxford, and before, by my uncle’s
d.-atb. I had succeeded to the title. I nnole
arrangements to spend the whole* ot the
lung vacation abroad. 1 was by no means
de.-irons of a solitary journey, and was
glad to learn-, that .O’Brien, whose rooms
were on the same staircase with my own
at Hrascnose, and with whom I was tol
erably intimate, was also meditating a
continental tour. We made arrangements
for starting together at the end of the
summer term, and in order to lose no time
I determined not to go into Scotland to
my mother before my departure, but to
travel as quickly as possible to Dover.
O'lb Sen had asTiflfe to detain him as I.
We slept a nigh* in the capital, and'a
night in the port, and three days after
leaving Oxford were lodged in the Hotel
De-sin. Neither of us had ever left Eng
land beforehand we were bptli full iof the
spirit of enjoyment. The quaint costumes,
the new cookery, the ponderous diligences
hut I won’t yon with a diluted
road-book. Ido not wish to give you my
crude ideas on the state ot society and the
asp -cts of the buildings in France, hut the
hi-iory of one night in Paris. We reached
that city, still together, but the first fort
night of our journey had taught us tiiat
«e were .not very well suited, for compan
ions. It was my delight to stop to;sketch
-some tawny old market woman, in per stiff
while cap: I could spend a in
church, and have stiff somewhere a port
folio fuff of corbels 'and screens afid cor
nices, marked St. Outer, Lille,.Chmbrai,
Amiens, and othcr places of smaller note.
O'Brien grew terribly tired ot all this.—
lie said the scene was detestable, be
thought all the churches were shockingly
out of repair, and was anxious to hasten
his arrival in the French metropolis. But i
in Paris we were ‘ separated more than
ever, in addition to the incongruity of
our tastes, political feeling fended to keep
its apart. We both had a fair number of
introductions to families moving in good
society. The friends who were most
pleased with O'Brien, and with whom
O'Brien was 'most pleased, though by
birth entitled 1b hold their heads as high
as any of the blue-blooded inhabitants of
the Faubourg St. Germain, bad been in
duced to give their countenance—-so they
regarded the transaction—to the court of
, tiie citizen king An old friend |of my
mother’s, married to a Marquis de
who took me under her special protection,
assured me that it was impossible? for the
loyal hearts who still cherished love and
hope fOr the (temporarily) fallen cause of
the white flag, to associate with those who
had degraded their race by recognizing th.e
position of an usurpation as detestable as
it would be ephemeral. I confess; that I
cared very little whether the older!or the
younger branch of the Bourbons issued the
invitations tor the assemblies at Tuilertes,
and I had.small hopes that Charles X
would be recalled. But L grew* to like
Madame de , and. as a necessary
consequence, formed different acquaint
ances from those of my fellow traveller.
We had teen in Paris about three weeks,
and though we were staj ing in the same
Hotel, I had not seen O’Brien for several
days. \v c met by accident on the slair
ease of the hotel.
“We are quite strangers; where are felt horror and alarm, ol a vague and in So uluctrlorTfiy hopes of the doctor, protection to me. To have all roy horrors panesofglass.proccedingalongthe passage;
vou going 1”. definite kind : hut I also felt intense cp- A door shut, and there was silence. .of life restored to me, and to be imprisoned but he did not turn his head. !'made as
“To call on Madame dc —' .’’ riosity, What would befall me? How I began now to realize the awful horror ; for hours in that hideous place, would kill loud a cry as my Strength would allow.
‘What! still the legitimist Marquise! long should I sit in thoseTuilerieagardens? of ray position. Officially declared to be |me in reality, I thought. It was better to He was just disappearing through the far-
Shall'we dine together’” . Would the fit soon leave me? dead, 1 experienced all those emotions j lie there impotent as I was. 1 If only I ther door, when ho suddenly turned and
“liv 11 f■ w i ben-at six ’’ I was sitting on a seat with a back toe which are said to bo felt by the dying in ' could sleep; if ? only I could escape from kicked through the glass. Under any other
? 1 j 66 me *" , ] S ' V, it, a few feet removed from the main alley’ cases where an accident plunges them from that consciousness which was all that was circumstances I should have smiled at the
was abi'u” h’*l°’kTn dm idternoin of the garden. My arms .were folded, my the enjoyment of health and life to the ! left to me. man's expression of ludicrous perplexity.
u ,pj ie a j head was slightly drooped on ray breast, immediate prospect of passing to another I lay tortured: and distracted by these His eyes opened to their utmost -extent,
hn *fc ,e . “Ty th ,i -f W my legs were crossed. There was nothing world. My past actions rose in swift reflections for what seemed to me to he and he nervously twisted his finger/in an
thc^sun’ so ^’s'V'emwMo * n attitude to'attract attention, so I succession in my thoughts. .-I reflected on many hours. Soon, I expected, it would end of his moustache. 1 beckoned feebly
mu ron a, io suns rays scemei sat rigid and immovable lor what seemed the frivolly of many of my occupations, on be day. And then? . with my hand. In another minute ho was
sc ore jup a a was irea m>e in le m e an age. .1 imagined all kinds'of the time i had (brown away, and thesmall Hut now a strange shiver shot all over by my side.
a mosp ici e. he s ones o tie streets terminations of my adventure.. N 1 use I had been to anybody. I remembered my frame. The blood seemed to rush to Muttering some words between his teeth,
were io o u rea . en oic< ie gar- B j lj>ub j.f oun(b (J f course. I.should be that my mother’s last letter, full, as were my head and fill; it with violent darting he took hold of my hand, perceived in an
sf'd t°sl -L> f lU^ ne j’ j i n f .*? j i Carried to my hotel; doctors would be sent all her letters, of of the fond- pains. A tingling, somewhat resembling instant how utterly weak and helpless I
, BIJ e ,? r "t* oazzlet eyes. y should learn what was the matter, est endearment, had not been answered, that of cramp!'ran along my extremities, was. lifted me in his arms, and carried me
ew scenes brighter, than those intones t and j B j lou j.j probably recover ; these fits And that lie I had told at school!—and j Did these mean that the paroxysm was out of the Morgue,
gaiclens. ou iave ' l " een t l,>ni ° ten ’ i were rarely of long duration. Carried to niy young life cut olf horribly and, myste- j coming to an Ctid—that I could move— Now 1 was able to tell where I could be
course. e w ater was mounting am i luy hotel'. They would find niy pocket- riouslv. non.- to be near me dying, none to that 1 could speak 1 I hardly wished the taken. And now the worst of my troubles
i ing wit >. its musica pasi in the s ml- j | n my pocket, containing letters know wiiar had become of me. And surmise to bo true as yet. The pain in were over ; but the tit left lusting and se
low basin, wherein two little >oys, imder j addressed a ' Monsieur . Hotel de O’Brien, he would be waiting to dine with my head grew more acute. Instinctively vere effects. I was not able to leave my
the supenntendeifce-ot a black-aycd bonne, i— Would they ? Was my pocket- mb; 'Where would he dine f ’ I wondered, i I willed to lift my hand, and press it on room for a fortnight, and during that lime
wcie swimming their toy-boat-. . loic j ; n j ts pj,,,.,. '■> ] could not feel. — What would he do to find me ? Perhaps Imy aching forehead. The limb obeyed only vcrygradually recovered my shattered
children and more nurses were playing j >Su(>pose the pw . k .. t .buok was Jeil, as was I might yet recover before—betorc what? j the volition. strength. ;
among the orange trees. iw<> orinree j gonietimes the case, in another coat ! What Frightful, damning thought. I was dead; ! You will, perhaps, understand me when Assured by my physicians that 1 was in
national Guards-were lounging ndont. ; otiler meilns of'identification would remain? I should be buried. I tried to pray. It j j ga y that, though this movement of my no vital danger, I did not distress my mo-
Aor were other lyiitorms wanting to fti\ e x seal with a •■■at of arms on it. a hat was not death I feared, 1 said to myself: j arm cm© to me as a kind of order of re- ther by informing her of my condition,
color to the picture. Ihe tn-« o oretl w i t j, _ an English maker’s mime; -neither of it was the manner of death. ■ lease, 1 yet hesitated to make trial of my But asl soon as I was strong enough to
bunting napped lazily over the dome o. much use in Paris But what matter was Yet through all this I must confess that recovered powers! I still kept my eyelids travel I left Paris, and travelled as rapidly
the palace. ,A man in a queer snuffy-' it wbo j W as, or where' I lived ? 1 should my agony was not so intense as now, down. 1 held fny hand fixed bn my brow, as was possible to our northern home,
brown coat walked by : he nad on green | ot 4^> ur «e_be taken to the Holel'Die. What knowing the circumstances in which I was Then the idea sprang up in my brain of My mother was terribly agitated whenshe
spectacles, and button-hole showed a | t |, e y do to IIK .J wonder ? Will they placed, I should suppose it might have using all my force to try th effect my saw that I had been ill; more so than was
shred of ribbon. \on wonder how 1 re- j __, m , what wa „ th»t? been. From apathy or hope, my mind escape from miy foul prison. ; I made a explicable by the mere fact of my having
member all tins ; .1 ou have no ui-a how , the bonllie who «, oke . Al- was very calm ; and 1 was very curious. low sound with Imy voice, t then mot- suffered from a malady which hud both
indelibly the scene w stamped on ray j op j ules> - n b j s gyrations, I speculated on what would befall me almost, tered several articulate words. My tongue come and gone.
meinoi}. it was tne nrst time UIU J ou I h . Btumble d amdnst me. lie knocked as though I had been the unconcerned spec- obeyed me. I moved my arm to my side On hearing my narrative of all that had
must hear al in order. T.f 101 ' one i e „ o ff lbe ..tker, and the sh.-k throw tator of .the adventures ot another. again, and raised one of my Tegs. The befallen me she. wept passionately, and
wenty minutes listening idly the p.ashmg | # rt . ol , trusivvljf unnatural, And what did •• ta has ” mean? The m y head was less. The shivering accused herself as the cause of much of my ■
lountain wondering whether Auguste ot . x nuf lon unnoticed, voice of authority had spoken of carrying had altogether Ceased. Still I was affect- suffering, inasmuch as she “had notYoUl >
Jules he must have been cithei Auguste j gto u , short in her expoatu- ln « “la has'' The door opened again, ed by a strange weariness—a disinclination me I then learned that the fear
or Julea—would get his boat within reach j 1- My eyelids were closed now, and I could to use the smallest exertion. Courage! I ful disease tb-which 1 had fallen a victim
by judiciously shelling over it with peb-j . not see who entered. I need hardly say tliou«rht-d-up add save yourself! I slowly was hereditary in my family. It did not
hies, fancying now Napoleon pinciimg some j T 5 l tliou-dit • but 1 ll,at 1 could no V :u Y e > es - The opened my eyes. A little light from a attack father and son in regular succession,
honored cm, or- the longed-for Louis do- j- ■ ■ - ouiih . u voices wete none of those which Iliad dull moon struggled in through a skylight but, like the more dire affliction of in
zing over las favorite Horace in that very nm veryJ. ;- , ‘ x ■ . s - , already heard. I was lifted again. The over mv headfand by its help I could sanity, lighted capriciously now on one
garden, watching, the figure ot the man in lam. ot n hplesorudy .Hue Aon is m ( Qf . the a . n on my ear with a dbti ; sh with tole 4 ble c{earne ss the and now on another; but it preserved so
the brown coat and the green spectacles, be properly cared for. . y sound slightly Mulled, and 1 felt that I was aspect of my Todrin". Immediately in much of regularity, in its visitations that
growing “ fine by degrees ’’ in the narrow- j ments I was tne centre ot a small crowd with some kind of cloth. My Kof fne it Smeyed on panes of it never slumbered for more than a gene
ing vista o. trees. Then I thought of j and presen h- two or three Carers walked for some ten or- fifteej, E. Throuoh surmised, my ration. If B spared a father, it &...
Madame de =— and my vi.-it: nut re- j shouldered tin it way 1 ■ h ‘ ' minutes. There was a fresh sound of friends'would 0 seek me. It fell on sonie most certain that it would, fall upon one
tnembered that it-would be more decorously | They lifted me up, and laid me along tlm and shutting doors, and I was gix «r seven hard cold beds of stone or of his sons. My own father had p.ssei
paid rathe evening than in the at ternoon. bench. T ten M J ’.. ‘ Tthrown rudely on some hard surface ; not raeta l. like the slabs in a fishmonger’s through life with no personal experience ;
What should Ido with mysch > 1 Yelt | aware that I was quite stif. Jne o i n bl ij deeentlv as I had been in the office of *hop On several it showed hothing but of the family curse, dying when I was
strangely disinclined to move. And my put Ins hand on my breast, and held it gendar ; ns but lbl . own down like a
j the smooth shining surface; On two about nine years old. My uncle was
head? What is it thqt seems toweigh it , there awhile ' ... worthless burden. Could I complain! ©there, besides fifty own. it reited with a equally fortunate. My grandfather was
down? Is it thfe sun; and the heat. I j “His heart does not beat—nor his pulse. Was I not officially dead ? dull Meam on something Hint had once seized at intervals of time varying from
never felt anything like it before. IheHe is dead.” But what was this? I felt rough pecks contained the spirit of a man. One of two to four years,being smitten first when
pain attacKed me suddenly, lain. It The little group of bystanders tell back at mv arms and legs. I was being strip- these corpses looked little more deadly about twenty years ot age. The great
was hardly pain? Perhaps the sensation gom© paces, and a search was commenced- my clothes. Was this for the than I did myself. It was lyjng next to uncle of my grandfather, there was little
cannot'be described to-those who have not j© my pockets for some name or address, coffin? 1 thought now that allwas over, my own couch! a!nd I could clearly see the doubt, had been juried alive in Paris, so
felt it. I had su.fi’ered from \ iolent head- j WIW excited by the thought of this search. an d I felt weary and confused. - A partial f a ; r all( j gentle features of a well-looking journing there as part of the suite of the
ache for some days ; but my head did not You see how difficult it is for me to express blunting of my senses spared me much of lad/lof some fifteen or sixteen years, hapless Queen Henrietta Maria. I was,
ache now. It felt dull-and heavy. My mvse if. J cannot say “.1 trembled,” “1. the pain I must otherwise have suffered, drovraed, in all likelihood, in the river as you know, the last of my line. My
natural impulse was to lift my hand to my b eld my breath,” “my pulse beat quicker;” i waited, still perfectly conscious of all that ran behind me. His face showed few poor mother, who had learned the family
brow. I willed fhe movement oi my arm, there was no palpable evidence of my agl- that was going on around'me, as far as or no signs of a violent death, A slight secret from my father on his death-bed,
it I may so express myself; but no mine- tation. But I was excited. any one can be conscious of what he does abrasion on his cheek-bone was all thedis- knew that unless the curse had died out, I
meat resulted, t jiad no power to stir. . No, there was no pocket-book. My not see, and wondering what would hap- figurement. His close-cropped curly hair should be, in the natural order of things,
I then became sensible that my respiration | heart . at i',, ast ] frit as though my pen next. I was stripped of ray clothes — looked full of life, and his lipswere almost its next victim. : She was divided betw»sen
grew feebler, and that there was a kind ot j lBart ©- u „|,t to have sunk. I cannot tell stripped entirely. Then I was carried smiling. The other body was as far re- her sense of the obligation she was under
.“Us' 1 ". C (W roy heart. It is j l<)W i oll ® this' search occupied. '• My con- through another door. A faint and sickly tnoved from me ns the size of the room to inform me of my danger, and so enable
difficult for ine, as I have said already, to seemed now to become a little stench immediately smote my sense of would permit I could just see a mass of to take proper precautions to meet it ? and
describe my condition. 1 caiwinlv say do q er jj ot by any means lost: only a smell. 1 wqs laid down on ray back on bloated and discolored flesh.; The moon her desire to spare me the pain of anU«-"“
that I seeimT s.uqdenly to have less life in j iu j e acule lbaJ i j n ordinary life. In an inclined surface, my head somewhat seemed to make a kind of foul halo,over pafion of so great a calamity. When I
me ; my vital powers seemed to dwindle ©itanwhile a i stretcher had been j higher than my feet. A horrible chill ran its misshapen outline. The stench of the had passed Hie age of twenty-one m seen
down to the smallest possible force. 1 brouMit to the ground. I was' lifted there- j through me. Was this the grave ? I dead smote my nostrils again, and I turned rity, she had hoped that I might be
existed, because f was conscious, but that oj| g “ met j,ing was put over my face, and J could not tell. Nothing covered me, with to the wall with a shudder. 1 looked be- spared. She was, nevertheless, ever an*- .
was al. My senses remained to me ; >ut „i e aw ay. I could hear the j the exception of a cloth which had been hind me. There all the clothes of the ious concerning can under
not all xn equal strength, ihe plashing foun , ain an( l the many children’s I thrown over my loins. Was lin a coffin, d ea d were hanging, waiting the recogni- stand the were rouf«d
ot pie fountain Was as distinct as betore voices ihg tbt . ()Ugb tbe ave ' nues- Oh. | waiting for a pauper’s burial on the mor- tion of the Interested, or thecriticUmsand by my announcement of my
| paroxysm ; piy eyesight was Tig ily f | iat j cou hi h ave spoken,! , Oh, for power 1 row ? Oh. God !to what should I jests of the inquisitive. I now rose, and, journey to Paris. • | a
Uhmmed. Whether I could smei) or taste; | t() , ay t)l .t one word! awake! groping among my own, partly dressed You will undprstaud, also, why I httve
|ot course .1 could not tell, Ot t.nicli had We passed out of the garden : i could No - It could not be the grave. It myself with as little delay as possible, for never travelled alone. At th| tune 1 tell
1 hardly any sense at all. All this- tll . . . which direction. By the ; must be—the thought flashed across me in £ was bitterly cold. But 1 did this with you Ibis (I am just thirty-five) I have
; you at this poipt, for at the moment i' noise 0 f traffic I perceived'that we entered i instant. How came it that I had not difficulty: I was very weak. Now, I been attacked altogether eight times by a
my attack I seeded thoroughly nwate of ( , rowdcd Btreot . Presently westopped : thought of it before ? That of course whs thought, is there any one inear me who cataleptic fit, similar to that which X have
my condition. One thing only excepted. a doo| . Was opelied ! lnd shut an j the hum thedestination of the unclaimed dead. That w iU hearse cry out? The work-people described to you. i .
Tor fen minute*, a. I should imagine, I ceased. I was sensi- j of course was what was meant by the la w ju probably be soon going out to their You may be surl|hat since that fi«t
sat wondering at what had befallen me. 9 nb longer bein«r carried ! of the gendarme. I was in. the labor; or perhaps some gen larme is left time I have taken precautions which haye
ll.cn I bethought me of calling for help. “ ,at . £ h , u | wfts in Morgue! to watch in the precincts of this place, saved me from more than the necessary
, There were a score of people within the ‘ * Here, I thought, Ybu may think it strange, but my first What time was it, exactly M wondered, suffering. In my I nerer
1 ° f vo **’ , 1 Cry ’ bu j I my Rubles must en<l. They I feeling was one of relief. To be buried I felt for my watch: in my pockets, but it was very wild or thoughtless K but he
; here was no sound. My tongue refund ;«« ’ a doctor ;he will know <if alive was my great dread. That fate was was not to to found. Then I tried the solemn experiences of the hours of the
to articulate I was horror-struck ; but “ Jr of fi and wiU certainlj p^,J 0 „ed. Perhaps 1 might be door-locked' tight; the windows-fast n.ght of my sojourn in the Morgue made, j
1 WaS fT °* T pe , of th *'* u s f- V ™ P : ;. L sue measured as will mollify its own i saved froln U altogether. So for some too. Here mylslrength failed me. I tried as you will believe, no light impress,on on
toms of horror.. My heart did not beat , *-“ «««’' “ . 1 . mQ lime j , conirra 4 uing myse lf on the,, to knock on the panes of glass, but I felt me I was brought palpably in contact ;
| more quickly I could feel no sweat on ,^ u • coafus : e d renewed probability of my safety. T should myself sinking to the ground. I tried to with my own death, and the' lesson was ‘ ,
| ray brow. Was this death ’ No; .it J V erat voices in conversation ’ lie here, perhaps, for days. It would be call aloud, but ray cry was very feeble, better than fifty sermons. But I will spare •„
, could not surely: bo death. I had all my in my ears, I gathered that remarked that my body showed no signs After this, I remember nothing more of you my moralizing* 1 have never mafr c
1 wits about me, and all my f impressions ; which J Uh lha t in ©f decomposition. Possibly O’Brien would the night. Worn out with pain and ned, and I never shall. And O’Brien,
; were mundane. The life of 1 aru was •' J f w * re deliberating seek me in this glim receptacle of the anxiety, utterly exhausted by the attack the man who was w.th me raPans! He
j movrag round ffie just as it was wont I Ji, ion T could not distinguish I dead. At anv rate, there was hope, to which I had been subjected, I became was just coming out of our hotel as I drove ,
; alone was motionless Then there flashed . 0 J. r.-estotly the voices grew i Should I starve to death ? No; surely totally insensible. «P th « ™rnrag ,n a tocre, supported •
; across me he recollection of a evidently jin cases of catalepsy the appetite is all but When I came to myself again it was “gendarme, and some doctor employed -
■ £tlm£ ! Spring. Thjface-clotli was removetl. | dead. The HttleTifr left in the body re-j broad daylight. I found fn I
; . . 0 . . ~ i There were the same cendarmes who had ! quires but little At least, I j crouched up in a corner of the room. I _ <
wMcK TTd US Sred U from n my mother 1 discovered me in the garden accompanied ! felt 1,0 hunger. There was hog! | lifted my eyes for a moment to the bodies a 7eJIL yeare® S “l£
immediately before my departure from by several more. And with ihem-yes. Then came a re-ac ,on. This horrible on the two oqpupted slabs, With arrange b .jSvwfoS *
England —expressions which, when read ! t»«ere was no-doubt of it-w.tl. them on- place that I wastin’, and I bound hand fancy that they.^ 100, might have been shut 1 Stoll fSSSS- *'
in The light of my present brief experience, ’ *er?d the little old gentleman ,n the brown and foot as tightly as Lazarus ’ y p altve. The corpse of was I J '
led me to the opinion thattny family must! coat and green spectacles whom I remem- grave-clothes. A deadly cold seemed _to JUBt as lt had been in he qight, lying; a? if SfonJ at ‘TreU
be cursed by some fearfuT hereditary evil, bered to have seen before ray seizure, ch.l all my frame. And always that faint; And : the other L How ehouW ® ,D “ r J‘ u ' for yo*
an evil whirl, mv mother had never vet - T1 'is, then, was (ho long-desired physician; fetid stench telling mo ot my—hideous thatbeagaraa receptacle of life? Bronzed Pj? um o. an uour , lar . ®r r
dared to coramuniJale tome. “ lam very •be would tell these blunderers that* I was thought!-of my companions. I was not ; and swollen,-it wap a loafhsonw sight to
anxious,” she had written, “about your not dead N alone. I began to speculate on the ap- see For an rastaht I said, “It is the H f h^ 6 the story froin U».dSt>
journey. Of course you will not travel .“ He is stiff already. Such is not the pearance of the place. I had heard what ; body © f anego.” Itfrwira negro; it ; J*™* to weak toTalk.
alone. Who il to be your companion ? . unfrequently the Case in disease of (he «wf like. I had never seen ,t I .c- <had not that black, skra tfi life. And a tor, x jvas .
Do fknow him? I know that you like | heait. I should have believed him dead timed to myself the maimed and rotting ,-right like that is the attraction for a , RlQllT oct oN - Hlrf
society, my dear boy, and I should be sorry ‘.before the hour which you say. In the corpse of some unhappy suicide, recovered crowd every day. But I was in no eon- p utcll hypochondriac wa* cofepU^m
to think of your wandering through j garden of the Tuileries? I made there a too !ate fronV thec™t of thehenjej d.lion to indulge in reflcc.or« on others; g |ieighbuP . he, “L have.*
strange cities-alone. Nothing is more promenade myself this afternoon. And for such ginudesp had heard, wre e [ wis too weak to think, for myself. I in m £ ne gtocfc (stomach,, 1
.melancholy. Pray let me know if you neither name nor address ? That is droll! ™ oiit frequent denizens of the A orgue. i ay stilL huddled in the cofner ! , wait rag. gi b , petier and Bome<liraeß : i ;gjfe ; l(ro%r*
lare intimate with youi*pri>pused cotnpagnon Ah !it is already six hours! ?And lam How close was Ito ha oa isome Y- At last a key rattled in a lock- .« an d one day I shust gits'rightifet»4fl#i9%j;;
'de voyagi, and if you are likely to remain invited to dine in a quarter of a., hour! Could I touch at if 1 were able to put put chargp of the hoad
together for the whole of your tour.” All Poor young map! Close his eyelids, niy hand ? . opened a door, not the door of the part ot
these thoughts flashed through my brain Louis; hav.dan expression quite liv- Filled with these fearful fancies,i hoped the room in vvlnch were the bodies, but a «T Excetlcnt t
in a very few; second* I knew that I ing. Monsieur will permit me to sign the that the fit might not leave me till it Wa? door opening into thethUlejaaeage behind ge wime .** 81. ”
must have fallen into a kind of trance. I proces-verbal wit flout delay ? Lctusgo.” day. My .blind helplessness was a sort of the window* I cpuld lee bite through tpe Barrett. ... Tj.j.aic: tut ,-s
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