But the Queen, in the same feigned voice as before, retorted: "Ah! mo piti fils, to pas connais to zancestres?

Say you are my mother!" Madame Delphine looked an instant into the upturned face, and then turned her own away, with a long, low cry of pain, looked again, and laying both hands upon the suppliant's head, said: "Oh, chère piti à moin, to pa' ma fie!"Oh, my darling little one, you are not my daughter!Her eyes closed, and her head sank back; the two gentlemen sprang to her assistance, and laid her upon a sofa unconscious.

"Ah! ma, piti sans popa!

"Ah! ma, piti sans popa!