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The Indian knows all that; he knows those dread genii by name." Monnier, Des Andes au Para, p. 300. Op. cit., pp. 23-24. Lang, op. cit., I, 162, and passim. Max Müller, op cit., p. 12. Nouveaux Essais, p. 320. See Lang, Myth, Ritual and Religion, I, p. 234, a passage from the Rig-Veda, with four very different translations by Max Müller, Wilson, Benfrey, and Langlois.

She did not hear what Mere Langlois called after her, for Mere Langlois had been slow to recover from the unexpected violence dealt by one whom she had always bullied. "Poor Jean Jacques!" said Virginie Poucette to herself as her horses ate up the ground. "That's another bit of bad luck. He'll not sleep to- night.

The magistrate hastened to look up the address given by the prisoner, and found it entered thus: "Langlois, sumptuous apartments for families and single persons. Superior attendance." "I was almost sure of it," he said to himself. Then handing Daniel the paper on which the words "University" and "Street" could be deciphered, he asked, "Do you know that handwriting, M. Champcey?"

Their names were as follows: Abraham Martin and his wife Marguerite Langlois, and his two daughters, Anne and Marguerite; Pierre Desportes and his wife Françoise Langlois, and a girl named Hélène; Nicholas Pivert and his wife Marguerite Lesage, and their niece; Louis Hébert and his wife Marie Rollet, and a son named Guillaume; Adrien Duchesne and his wife; Guillaume Couillard, his wife, Guillemette Hébert, and a girl named Louise; Champlain and his wife Hélène Boullé.

There are amongst the stained glass windows, several which deserve to be, particularly noticed. I will here point out their places, after the work of E.H. Langlois, on stained glass, and that of Gilbert on the Cathedral . «Left aisle, in going up, opposite the fourth arcade of the nave: upper panes occupied by several subjects taken from the life of saint John the baptist, saint Nicolas, etc.

"Madame, you are young, and you have an eye of intelligence. Be sure of this: you can protect yourself against almost anyone except a liar eh, madame?" he added to Mere Langlois. "I am sure your experience of life and your good sense "

Here, then, was the most obvious opportunity a man in trouble who had not deserved the bitter bad luck which had come to him. Even old Mere Langlois in the market-place at Vilray had admitted that, and had said the same later on in Virginie's home. For an instant Jean Jacques was fascinated by the sudden prospect which opened out before him.

At Seez, when constitutional priests are in disfavor, the bishop is compelled to resign on the instant, while Abbe Langlois, his principal counsellor, taken by the gendarmes, led to Paris from police station to police station, is shut up in La Force, in secret confinement, with straw for a bed, during fourteen days, then imprisoned in Vincennes for nine months, so that, finally, seized with paralysis, he is transferred to an insane retreat, where he remains a prisoner up to the end of the reign.

"What a ridiculous little man!" said a woman from Chalfonte over the water, who had been buying freely all day for her new "Manor," her husband being a member of the provincial legislature. The words were no sooner out of her mouth than two women faced her threateningly. "For two pins I'd slap your face," said old Mere Langlois, her great breast heaving.

It was at this moment Jean Jacques heard a woman's voice bidding, then two women's voices. Looking up he saw that one of the women was Mere Langlois and the other was Virginie Poucette, who had made the first bid.