"The cup of humiliation is full," said Marcel to himself.

But when his appetite, sharpened by his journey, was appeased, he examined Marcel with curiosity, and what he observed, combined with a few indiscreet words of Veronica, confirmed him in his suspicions, that a drama was being enacted in the young man's soul.

you will enquire for the Abbé Marcel at this address.

Can you see that wet bunch of fluffs with all the highlight off and their marcels around their necks.

" Whilst Marcel inside Paris, where he reigned supreme, was a prey, on his own account and that of his besieged city, to these anxieties and perils, an event occurred outside which seemed to open to him a prospect of powerful aid, perhaps of decisive victory.

[Illustration: Fig. 234.Group of Goldsmiths preceding the Chasse de St. Marcel in the Reign of Louis XIII.From a Copper-plate of the Period (Cabinet of Stamps in the National Library of Paris).

The coat of that horse had served Marcel for all his experiments in color, and in private conversation he called it his synoptic table of fine tones, because he had reproduced, in their play of light and shade, all possible combinations of color.

" Marcel from that moment perceived that his cause was lost, and no longer dreamed of anything but saving himself and his, at any price; "for he thought," says Froissart, "that it paid better to slay than to be slain.