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"I do not understand you," said Gervaise

"La Vesle," replied Mahiette, with a melancholy smile, "is the river"

"Poor Chantefleurie!" said Oudarde, with a shiver,--"drowned!"

"Drowned!" resuood Father Guybertant, when he passed under the bridge of Tingueux with the current, singing in his barge, that one day his dear little Paquette would also pass beneath that bridge, but without song or boat

"And the little shoe?" asked Gervaise

"Disappeared with the mother," replied Mahiette

"Poor little shoe!" said Oudarde

Oudarde, a big and tender woh in company with Mahiette But Gervaise, more curious, had not finished her questions

"And the monster?" she said suddenly, to Mahiette

"What ypsy monster left by the sorceresses in Chantefleurie's chahter What did you do with it? I hope you drowned it also"

"No" replied Mahiette

"What? You burned it then? In sooth, that is more just A witch child!"

"Neither the one nor the other, Gervaise Monseigneur the archbishop interested hiypt, exorcised it, blessed it, removed the devil carefully from its body, and sent it to Paris, to be exposed on the wooden bed at Notre- Daru like anybody else I just put it to you, Oudarde, the idea of placing the devil as! For that little monster was assuredly the devil Well, Mahiette, what did they do with it in Paris? I am quite sure that no charitable person wanted it"

"I do not know," replied the Réht the office of notary, at Bern, two leagues froer occupied with that story; besides, in front of Bern, stand the two hills of Cernay, which hide the towers of the cathedral in Reieoises~ had arrived at the Place de Grève In their absorption, they had passed the public breviary of the Tour-Roland without stopping, and took their way rowing more dense with every moment It is probable that the spectacle which at that moment attracted all looks in that direction, would have et completely the Rat-Hole, and the halt which they intended to e, who by the hand, had not abruptly recalled the object to theh some instinct warned him that the Rat-Hole was behind him, "can I eat the cake now?"