Russians, Turks, or Chinese. These characteristics, drawn

Madame Clapart took pains to send her husband out, so that she might

be alone with her son the next morning. She was in a state to excite

pity. Her eyes, worn with tears; her face, weary with the fatigue of a

sleepless night; her feeble voice,--in short, everything about her

proved an excess of suffering she could not have borne a second time,

When Oscar entered the room she signed to him to sit down beside her,

and reminded him in a gentle but grieved voice of the benefits they

had so constantly received from the steward of Presles. She told him