Des flanc-gardes.

The afternoon fadedon the blue surface of the distant 'canal,' the great poplars that stand sentinel at the western edge of the Park, one to right, and one to leftlast gardes du corps of the House of France!threw long shadows on the water; and across the opening which they marked, drifted the smoke of burning weeds, the only but sufficient symbol, amid the splendid scene, of that peasant France which destroyed Versailles.