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1825.

MADAME DE FLEURY.

CHAPTER I.

"There oft are heard the notes of infant wo,
The short thick sob, loud scream, and shriller squall.
How can you, mothers, vex your infants so ?"

POPE.

"D'ABORD, madame, c'est impossible !-Madame ne descendra pas ici*?" said François, the footman of madame de Fleury, with a half expostulatory, half indignant look, as he let down the step of her carriage at the entrance of a dirty passage, that led to one of the most miserable-looking houses in Paris.

"But what can be the cause of the cries which I hear in this house?" said madame de Fleury.

""Tis only some child, who is crying," replied François and he would have put up the step, but his lady was not satisfied.

:

""Tis nothing in the world," continued he, with a look of appeal to the coachman, “it can be nothing, but some children, who are locked up there above.

* In the first place, my lady, it is impossible! Surely my lady will not get out of her carriage here ?