for the 'Burgraves!'" said smilingly a venerable veteran of the Right. A

young Republican Representative rose, and offered him his mattress. They

pressed on each offers of overcoats, cloaks, and coverlets.

Reconciliation," said Chamiot, while offering the half of his mattress

to the Duc de Luynes. The Duc de Luynes, who had 80,000 francs a year,

smiled, and replied to Chamiot, "You are St. Martin, and I am the beggar."

M. Paillet, the well-known barrister, who belonged to the "Third Estate,"

used to say, "I passed the night on a Bonapartist straw mattress, wrapped

in a burnouse of the Mountain, my feet in a Democratic and Socialist

sheepskin, and my head in a Legitimist cotton nightcap." The

Representatives, although prisoners in the barracks, could stroll about

freely. They were allowed to go down into the courtyard. M. Cordier (of

Calvados) came upstairs again, saying, "I have just spoken to the

soldiers. They did not know that their generals had been arrested. They

appeared surprised and discontented." This incident raised the prisoners'

hopes.

Representative Michel Renaud of the Basses-Pyrénees, found several of his

compatriots of the Basque country amongst the Chasseurs de Vincennes who

occupied the courtyard. Some had voted for him, and reminded him of the

fact. They added, "Ah! We would again vote for the 'Red' list." One of

them, quite a young man, took him aside, and said to him. "Do you want

any money, sir? I have a forty-sous piece in my pocket."

Towards ten o'clock in the evening a great hubbub arose in the courtyard.

The doors and the barred gate turned noisily upon their hinges. Something

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