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If Eustache had been reedy, he would have continued to wait, and would only have hazarded that simple question, "Mother, can I eat the cake, now?" on their return to the University, to Master Andry Musnier's, Rue Madame la Valence, when he had the two ares of the city between the Rat-Hole and the cake

This question, highly imprudent at the moment when Eustache put it, aroused Mahiette's attention

"By the way," she exclai the recluse! Show me the Rat-Hole, that I may carry her her cake"

"Immediately," said Oudarde, "'tis a charity"

But this did not suit Eustache

"Stop!both ears alternatively with his shoulders, which, in such cases, is the supren of discontent

The three wo in the vicinity of the Tour-Roland, Oudarde said to the other two,-"We aze into the hole at once, for fear of alar the recluse Do you two pretend to read the Dominus in the breviary, while I thrust my nose into the aperture; the recluse knowswhen you can approach"

She proceeded alone to theAt the moment when she looked in, a profound pity was depicted on all her features, and her frank, gay visage altered its expression and color as abruptly as though it had passed froht; her eye became humid; her mouth contracted, like that of a person on the point of weeping A n to Mahiette to draw near and look

Mahiette, h approaching the bedside of a dying person

It was, in fact, a melancholy spectacle which presented itself to the eyes of the to of the Rat-Hole, neither stirring nor breathing

The cell was s, and viewed from within, it bore a considerable resee bishop's stones which for, or rather, crouching Her chin rested on her knees, which her crossed arms pressed forcibly to her breast Thus doubled up, clad in a brown sack, which enveloped her entirely in large folds, her long, gray hair pulled over in front, falling over her face and along her legs nearly to her feet, she presented, at the first glance, only a strange forround of the cell, a sort of dusky triangle, which the ray of daylight falling through the opening, cut roughly into two shades, the one sombre, the other illuht, half shadow, such as one beholds in dreams and in the extraordinary work of Goya, pale, ainst the grating of a prison cell