"I scarcely know who you mean, my acquaintance is so large and miscellaneous at Paris.

It might have been Johnson, or Smith, or Howard, or any body, in short." "It is a man nearly six feet high," said I, "thin, and remarkably well made, of a pale complexion, light eyes, and very black hair, mustachios and whiskers.

I saw him with you once in the Bois de Boulogne, and once in a hell in the Palais Royal.

Surely, now you will recollect who he is ?" Thornton was evidently disconcerted.

"Oh!" said he, after a short pause, and another of his peculiarly quick, sly glances--"Oh, that man; I have known him a very short time.