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"Silence! silence!"

The personage, but little reassured, and tree of the marble table with a vast amount of bohich, in proportion as he drew nearer, enuflections

In the radually been restored A1l that reht murmur which always rises above the silence of a crowd

"Messieurs the bourgeois," said he, "and eoises~, we shall have the honor of declai, before his eminence, monsieur the cardinal, a very beautiful in Mary' I a the very honorable embassy of the Duke of Austria; which is detained, at present, listening to the harangue of ate Baudets As soon as his illustrious ein"

It is certain, that nothing less than the intervention of Jupiter was required to save the four unfortunate sergeants of the bailiff of the courts If we had the happiness of having invented this very veracious tale, and of being, in consequence, responsible for it before our Lady Criticisainst us that the classic precept, ~Nec deus intersit~, could be invoked Moreover, the costuneur Jupiter, was very handso the crowd, by attracting all its attention Jupiter was clad in a coat of ilt nails; and had it not been for the rouge, and the huge red beard, each of which covered one-half of his face,--had it not been for the roll of gilded cardboard, spangled, and all bristling with strips of tinsel, which he held in his hand, and in which the eyes of the initiated easily recognized thunderbolts,--had not his feet been flesh-colored, and banded with ribbons in Greek fashion, he ht have borne comparison, so far as the severity of his uard of Monsieur de Berry