us both out of doors, you are so stanch a Marianne repeated, in changing the question put by the president to her master, who, did not well understand it, "The citizen asks if you know my paroquet ?" Her eyes fixed on her master's face, and her heart beating violently in fearful suspense, she awaited the answer. "Yes," said M. Capron, yielding without knowing it to the friendly impulse of his governante: "yes, it is Marianne's paroquet.' Marianne respired again. "And where did it come from?" M. Capron did not clearly comprehend the question put by the public accuser, and answered as before: "As I have already had the honour of telling you—to Marianne." "Yes," said the generous woman, Vive le roi and as that my paroquet cried made my mast-the citizen Capron angry, The called me aristocrat, and would have turned "when me away, so I put the poor animal to board at Madame de Fremery's, but she died, and I was obliged to take back my paroquet. I never told this to my mas-- -to the citizen Capron, who knew nothing of the paroquet being in the house, for he would have killed it at once -he is so hot a patriot-that old sans-culotte there." A NAME. Beats there a heart that does not bound home, carefully concealing from him the ter- "Listen to me," said she to him; "go on my part and seek out Françoise Chomez, my cousin; tell her that I desire she will henceforth be my master's housekeeper. He is an old gentleman, mild and easy to serve; he will take her into his service, as soon as he knows it is I that have sent her. My master needs that his habits should be respected; he must retire by times to bed; if his pillow is not high enough, the blood will mount to his head, and might bring on a fit of apoplexy. Mon Dieu! if I could but see Françoise, and give her these directions myself. Have I yet time, citizen ?" The executioner answered by a sign of the head negatively. "That is unfortunate. Poor Mons- Capron, what will become of him without my assistance ?" In They led her away to the scaffold. mounting the fatal steps she turned her head round in search of him among the crowd who was to bear her instructions to the future governante of M. Capron. Eight days after died M. Capron. They had watchfully kept from him that Marianne, by a devotion truly sublime and disinterested, had died in the place of her master. But he could not live without her, without hearing her voice, without being always made sensible of her goodness. He died of grief-died from the absence of Marianne-died in calling for her to give him his diet, drink, which was in vain offered to him by Françoise Chomez. Thus habit had its heroism: in like manner habit had its victim. In saying this she took care to turn her back on her master, that he might not hear the Hattering epithets applied to him. At this uncture there was a stir among the auditory, and some one was making way through the rowd, and had advanced up to the barrier whick kept off the public from the space reserved for the members of the court. It was the notary, and executor to the will of Madame Could gratitude, ties of blood, love itself de Fremery; he was on the point of speaking have produced a more devoted or a tenderer o prevent the old housekeeper from criminatIng herself in place of her master, but Marianne stopped him by a look at once submissive and imploring. "The sympathising heart mocks at professions, and gives the lie to olour." The notary retired back among the crowd. Those composing the court, wholly indif Ferent to the devotion and attachment of this heroic woman, and without taking thought of t, or even perhaps suspecting it, interrogated he old man afresh, who answered in a manher so vague, and without meaning, as not to Compromise himself, nor make null, the geneous falsehoods of Marianne. 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