He desired, for decorum's sake, to repress his father's exclamations.

He saw the people standing about to hear his father's words.

"Come," said the young man, "let us go to the Madeleine, and see that famous church." "Ah, Edouard," said Jasmin, "I can see well enough that you are not a poet; not you indeed!" During his visit, Jasmin wrote regularly to his wife and friends at Agen, giving them his impressions of Paris.

His letters were full of his usual simplicity, brightness, boyishness, and enthusiasm.

"What wonderful things I have already seen," he said in one of his letters, "and how many more have I to see to-morrow and the following days.