"If you stay here long, I think you and the prison-walls will become acquainted.

But here is what used to be poor Mr.Royal's happy home, and yonder is where Madame Papanti resides,--the Madame Guirlande I told you of, who befriended the poor orphans when they had no other friend.

Her kindness to them, and her courage in managing for them, was what first put it in my head to ask her to be my wife.

Come in and have a _tete-a-tete_ with her, sir.

She knew the girls from the time they were born, and she loved them like a mother." Within the house, the young man listened to a more prolonged account, some of the details of which were new, others a repetition.