In the intervals between the concerts and recitals, he made many new friends, as well as visited many old ones.

His gay and genial humour, his lively sallies, his brilliant recitals, brought him friends from every circle.

M.Merv, in a political effusion, welcomed the Gascon poet.

He was invited to a fete of l'Athenee-Ouvier (the Workman's Athenaeum); after several speeches, Jasmin rose and responded: "I am proud," he said, "of finding myself among the members of this society, and of being welcomed by men who are doubly my brethren--by the labour of the hands and by the labour of the head.

You have moved me and astonished me, and I have incurred to l'Athenee-Ouvier a poetical debt which my muse can only repay with the most tender recollections." Many pleasant letters passed between Jasmin and Mdlle.