in a correspondent diversity or increase in that sum of

"It seems to me you could say 'monsieur' without cracking your

throat," replied the master of the line of coaches of the Valley of

Unless by the sound of the voice, Oscar could never have recognized

the individual whose jokes had been so fatal to him. Georges, almost

bald, retained only three or four tufts of hair above his ears; but

these were elaborately frizzed out to conceal, as best they could, the

nakedness of the skull. A fleshiness ill-placed, in other words, a

pear-shaped stomach, altered the once elegant proportions of the ex-