167/259 Faithfully narrated, though with the omission of many pathetic circumstances, from the mouth of a French lady, who had been an eye and ear-witness of all that was done and said. Many long years after I was told that Dupligne was then a monk in the Convent of La Trappe. _The Idiot Boy_. The last stanza, 'The cocks did crow, and the sun did shine so cold,' was the foundation of the whole. |