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Gossip Jacques exclaimed, "Instantly, sire! there will be tinory, to hang the bailiff For God's sake, sire! send before to- looked hi"

It was one Of those looks to which one does not reply After a silence, Louis XI raised his voice once more,-"You should know that, Gossip Jacques What was--"

He corrected himself "What is the bailiff's feudal jurisdiction?"

"Sire, the bailiff of the palace has the Rue Calendre as far as the Rue de l'Herberie, the Place Saint-Michel, and the localities vulgarly known as the Mureaux, situated near the church of Notre-Dame des Champs (here Louis XI raised the brim of his hat), which hotels number thirteen, plus the Cour des Miracles, plus the Maladerie, called the Banlieue, plus the whole highhich begins at that Maladerie and ends at the Porte Sainte-Jacques Of these divers places he is voyer, high, neur"

"Bless ht hand, "that oodly bit ofof all that"

This time he did not correct hi to himself,-"Very fine, monsieur the bailiff! You had there between your teeth a pretty slice of our Paris"

All at once he broke out explosively, "~Pasque-Dieu~!" What people are those who claim to be voyers, justiciaries, lords and ates at the end of every field? their gallows and their hang our people? So that as the Greek believed that he had as ods as there were fountains, and the Persian as s as he sees gibbets! Pardieu! 'tis an evil thing, and the confusion of it displeases reatly like to knohether it be the mercy of God that there should be in Paris any other lord than the king, any other judge than our parliament, any other emperor than ourselves in this empire! By the faith of my soul! the day must certainly co, one lord, one judge, one headsman, as there is in paradise but one God!"

He lifted his cap again, and continued, still drea on his pack of hounds: "Good, my people! bravely done! break these false lords! do your duty! at thee theneurs? On, my people on!"