Sometimes the ensign of sovereignty has been an eagle, sometimes a winged lion,now a black raven, then a broom,to-day St. Andrew's Cross, to-morrow St George's, perhaps the next a starry cluster.

"Pardie!" exclaimed Raoul, "that ensign is the tri-color, or my eyes are untrue to my own country.

"The radiant ensign of the Republic" was to him the living embodiment of her honor and her power.