Lots of things are in the courtyard; the closets are all open, and nothing in them.

Oh! the poor dear man, it's well he died, the sight would have killed him." Bongrand, who bought for Ursula certain articles which her uncle cherished, and which were suitable for her little house, did not appear at the sale of the library.

Shrewder than the heirs, whose cupidity might have run up the price of the books had they known he was buying them for Ursula, he commissioned a dealer in old books living in Melun to buy them for him.

As a result of the heir's anxiety the whole library was sold book by book.

Three thousand volumes were examined, one by one, held by the two sides of the binding and shaken so that loose papers would infallibly fall out.