I never tired of hearing about the brilliant days of the last Empire, and the fetes at the Tuileries, Compiegne, and St. Cloud.

As it happened, the fete of Janville fell on Sunday, the second in May.

(Last August was the first August in two hundred and sixty years which has not witnessed a municipal fete in celebration of this affair.)

They scarcely remain in any place longer than suffices to view the churches, and to deliver their letters of recommendation; or, if their stay be protracted at some capital town, it is only to be feted from one house to another, among that class of people who are every where alike.

Did one of these violate her vow of chastity, she and her fellow criminal were at once put to death; but did she claim that the child she bore was of divine parentage, and the contrary could not be shown, then she was feted as a queen, and the product of her womb was classed among princes, as a son of the sun.

As for Brusselswhy, Brussels at first glance was more like a city making a fete than the capital of a nation making war.

"We might give a lawn fete for his benefit," one of them suggested.

Thus it was that by the magic of beauty Aurora and her Countess sister found themselves installed at the Dresden Court, feted like Queens, receiving the caresses of the Court ladies, and the homage of every man, from Augustus himself to the youngest page, of whom a smile from their pretty lips made a veritable slave.

The owner of this fairy palace was unfortunately absent at a fete on a neighbouring estate.