CHAPTER XXII.
A WEEK is gone; LE JOUR DES NOCES arrived; the marriage was solemnized at St.Jacques; Mdlle.

Zoraide became Madame Pelet, NEE Reuter; and, in about an hour after this transformation, "the happy pair," as newspapers phrase it, were on their way to Paris; where, according to previous arrangement, the honeymoon was to be spent.

The next day I quitted the pensionnat.

Myself and my chattels (some books and clothes) were soon transferred to a modest lodging I had hired in a street not far off.

In half an hour my clothes were arranged in a commode, my books on a shelf, and the "flitting" was effected.