I knew in my heart of hearts that I should never return, but no word was spoken, and I continued a pleasant delusion with myself; I told my concierge that I would return in a month, and I left all to be sold, brutally sold by auction, as the letter I read in the last chapter charmingly and touchingly describes.

There you always find a concierge, who tells you all you want to know, and who speaks several languages.

Saying which I dismissed the humiliated concierge, took a drink, blew out the bougie, and sank into the arms of "Tired nature's sweet restorer.

We drove straight to Dalrymple's rooms, and, going in with a pass-key, went up without disturbing the concierge.

2. That very same evening I interviewed the concierge at No. 65

I told mam'selle you had her portrait in your sitting-room," laughed the fat concierge, leaning on her broom.

It was the only address with which she had provided the concierge at the Riffel Alp.

I got out of bed, rang the bell, and requested the concierge to bring me an auger.

"Yours are younger than mine, mon enfant," retorted the fat concierge; "and, as I see Mam'selle Hortense coming up to the door, I'd advise you to make use of them for yourself.

"See where he went, ask the concierge," he said to Tignol.

I touched the concierge on the arm.

The screams of Natalie brought the concierge from below and the maids from above, and an attempt was made to raise the unfortunate man from the ground; but with cries of anguish he besought them to desist.