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"Yes"

"What are you looking at?"

"I a at you; indeed you are adorable like that! One would say you were carrying ht, pardieu!"

"Oh, I think you swore, Eugenie" And the two young girls, whorief, the one on her own account, the other fro, as they cleared away every visible trace of the disorder which had naturally acco blown out the lights, the two fugitives, looking and listening eagerly, with outstretched necks, opened the door of a dressing-roooing first, and holding with one arm the portmanteau, which by the opposite handle Mademoiselle d'Armilly scarcely raised with both hands The yard was eone to bed Eugenie approached softly, and saw the old e She returned to Louise, took up the portround, and they reached the archway under the shadow of the wall

Eugenie concealed Louise in an angle of the gateway, so that if the porter chanced to awake he ht of the lamp which lit the yard,--"Gate!" cried she, with her finest contralto voice, and rapping at the

The porter got up as Eugenie expected, and even advanced so a young -whip, he opened it iate like a snake, and bounded lightly forward Eugenie, apparently calh in all probability her heart beat somewhat faster than usual, went out in her turn A porter was passing and they gave hi told him to take it to No 36, Rue de la Victoire, walked behind this enie, she was as strong as a Judith or a Delilah They arrived at the appointed spot Eugenie ordered the porter to put down the port rapped at the shutter sent hienie had rapped was that of a little laundress, who had been previously warned, and was not yet gone to bed She opened the door

"Madeet the post-chaise from the coach-house, and fetch some post-horses from the hotel Here are five francs for his trouble"