Suzanne of Belgium.

Of Suzanne in Particular XXVIII.

let me describe Suzanne to you at this secret hour: I am sure that you would prefer me to do so.

Suzanne from time to time could come to Nancy, and it was much more easy and less perilous for him to contrive interviews with her there, than in that village where they were spied upon by all.

They were lodged in the governor's quarters in the fortress, where the accommodation for ladies was of the slenderest, and M. de Nidemerle made many apologies, though he had evidently given up his own sleeping chamber to the two ladies, who would have to squeeze into his narrow camp-bed, with Suzanne on the floor, and the last was to remain there entirely, there being no woman with whom she could have her meals.

No, father, sobbed Suzanne under her bed-clothes.