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And then his laughter caain, when he reflected that Phoebus was alive; that after all, the captain lived, was gay and happy, had handsomer doublets than ever, and a new ed His sneer redoubled its bitterness when he reflected that out of the living beings whose death he had desired, the gypsy, the only creature whom he did not hate, was the only one who had not escaped hiht passed to the people, and there came to him a jealousy of an unprecedented sort He reflected that the people also, the entire populace, had had before their eyes the woman whoony as he thought that the woht by him alone in the darkness would have been supreht at full noonday, to a whole people, clad as for a night of voluptuousness He ith rage over all these mysteries of love, profaned, soiled, laid bare, withered forever He ith rage as he pictured to hiht of that badly fastened shift, and that this beautiful girl, this virgin lily, this cup of ht, to which he would have dared to place his lips only tre, had just been transformed into a sort of public bohereat the vilest populace of Paris, thieves, beggars, lackeys, had come to quaff in common an audacious, iht to picture to hiht have found upon earth, if she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest, if Phoebus had not existed and if she had loved him; when he pictured to himself that a life of serenity and love would have been possible to him also, even to him; that there were at that verythe hours in sweet converse beneath orange trees, on the banks of brooks, in the presence of a setting sun, of a starry night; and that if God had so willed, he ht have formed with her one of those blessed couples,--his heart melted in tenderness and despair

Oh! she! still she! It was this fixed idea which returned incessantly, which tortured him, which ate into his brain, and rent his vitals He did not regret, he did not repent; all that he had done he was ready to do again; he preferred to behold her in the hands of the executioner rather than in the arms of the captain But he suffered; he suffered so that at intervals he tore out handfuls of his hair to see whether it were not turning white