This cordial reception dissipated Deslauriers' bitterness. "Your bed? But that might inconvenience you!" "Oh, no! I have others!" "Oh, all right!" returned the advocate, with a laugh. "Pray, where are you dining?" "At Madame Dambreuse's." "Can it be that you are—perhaps——?" "You are too inquisitive," said Frederick, with a smile, which confirmed this hypothesis. Then, after a glance at the clock, he resumed his seat. "That's how it is! and we mustn't despair, my ex-defender of the people!" "Oh, pardon me; let others bother themselves about the people henceforth!" The advocate detested the working-men, because he had suffered so much on their account in his province, a coal-mining district. Every pit had appointed a provisional government, from which he received orders. "Besides,

