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The personage who entered wore a black gown and a gloomy mien The first point which struck the eye of our Jehan (who, as the reader will readily surmise, had ensconced himself in his nook in such a ood pleasure) was the perfect sadness of the gare of this new-corner There was, nevertheless, some sweetness diffused over that face, but it was the sweetness of a cat or a judge, an affected, treacherous sweetness He was very gray and wrinkled, and not far from his sixtieth year, his eyes blinked, his eyebrohite, his lip pendulous, and his hands large When Jehan saw that it was only this, that is to say, no doubt a physician or a istrate, and that this n of stupidity, he nestled down in his hole, in despair at being obliged to pass an indefinite time in such an uncomfortable attitude, and in such bad company

The archdeacon, in the e He had n to seat himself on a stool near the door, and, after several moments of a silence which appeared to be a continuation of a precedingway, "Good day, Master Jacques"

"Greeting, master," replied the man in black

There was in the tays in which "Master Jacques" was pronounced on the one hand, and the "master" by preeneur and monsieur, between ~do of a teacher and a disciple

"Well!" resumed the archdeacon, after a fresh silence which Master Jacques took good care not to disturb, "how are you succeeding?"

"Alas!the stone Plenty of ashes But not a spark of gold"

Do to you of that, Master Jacques Charician Is it not Marc Cenaine that you call him? the butler of the Court of Accounts? Does he confess his witchcraft? Have you been successful with the torture?"

"Alas! no," replied Master Jacques, still with his sad smile; "we have not that consolation That ht have him boiled in the Marché aux Pourceaux, before he would say anything Nevertheless, we are sparing nothing for the sake of getting at the truth; he is already thoroughly dislocated, we are applying all the herbs of Saint John's day; as saith the old comedian Plautus,-~'Advorsum stimulos, laminas, crucesque, compedesque, Nerros, catenas, carceres, numellas, pedicas, boias~'