"You shall not go! You shall not go!" in such a loud voice, that
everybody turned round and laughed, and I remained standing motionless
and furious, but without venturing to face scandal and ridicule, and the
steamboat started.

The little woman on the landing-stage looked at me as I went off with
an air of disappointment, while my persecutor rubbed his hands, and
whispered to me:

"I have done you a great service, you must acknowledge."




THE JENNET


Every time he held an inspection on the review ground, General Daumont de
Croisailles was sure of a small success, and of receiving a whole packet
of letters from women the next day.

Some were almost illegible, scribbled on paper with a love emblem at the
top, by some sentimental milliner; the others ardent, as if saturated
with curry, letters which excited him, and suggested the delights of
kisses to him.

Among them, also, there were some which evidently came from a woman of
the world, who was tired of her monotonous life, had lost her head, and
let her pen run on, without exactly knowing what she was writing, with