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ALFRED DE ROSANN. 137 “Oh! the soldiers were obliged to use their bayo- nets,’ answered the boy; “and then the affair was soon finished. Several of the convicts broke their fetters in the skirmish, to use as weapons of defence; but only three escaped.”’ ‘What are their names?” asked Jeannette. - “Just as if I troubled my head about a parcel of names!”’ cried the boy, thrusting large spoonfuls of soup into his mouth with a peculiar relish. ‘“ No—that’s true,’’ remarked Belle-Rose: “ never bother yourself with idle appellations.’’ | “‘]t is extraordinary,’’ said Claude, after-a pause, ‘how well those fellows manage to escape: for my part, 1 cannot fancy in what manner they do it.” ‘ Nor I,’”’ added Belle-Rose, with the most ineffable coclress, as he kicked De Rosann’s foot beneath the table: then turning to Claude, he said, “ But I wonder the fugitives never seek a momentary refuge in this cottage, at least till the fervour of the first search be _ past: methinks your hut is admirably contrived for such a shelter.’’ “QO no! the Gendarmes know it well,’’ cried Jean- nette. ‘ Yes—and for that very reason they never visit it,’ added Claude, in a tone of voice intended to re- buke the hasty remark which his. daughter had made: “they are aware that although we be poor, we are ho- nest, and would not for the world harbour a man whose crimes had rendered him deserving of punish- ment; for, according to my ideas,’’ continued the pea- sant, “it is not aduty imposed by humanity, nor the rights of hospitality, to protect offenders against the laws of our country.”’ “T perfectly agree with you, my honest friend,” exclaimed Belle-Rose ; “and advise you always to practice those principles which sound so well in theory.” * «Every honest man must be of the same opinion,”’ said the unlearned but upright labourer, who did not perceive that Belle-Rose was ridiculing the severity ) 12” COnniclooolkxs (C@