principles that I had served, was now no longer at the beck of the

council, and was no longer charged with shameful and revolting

tasks. Oh! what an interval of peace was that! I still dream, at

times, that I can hear the note of my neighbour's bird.

'My money was running out, and it became necessary that I should

find employment. Scarcely had I been three days upon the search,

ere I thought that I was being followed. I made certain of the

features of the man, which were quite strange to me, and turned

into a small cafe, where I whiled away an hour, pretending to read

the papers, but inwardly convulsed with terror. When I came forth

again into the street, it was quite empty, and I breathed again;

but alas, I had not turned three corners, when I once more observed

the human hound pursuing me. Not an hour was to be lost; timely

submission might yet preserve a life which otherwise was forfeit

and dishonoured; and I fled, with what speed you may conceive, to

the Paris agency of the society I served.

'My submission was accepted. I took up once more the hated burthen

of that life; once more I was at the call of men whom I despised

and hated, while yet I envied and admired them. They at least were

wholehearted in the things they purposed; but I, who had once been

such as they, had fallen from the brightness of my faith, and now

laboured, like a hireling, for the wages of a loathed existence.

Ay, sir, to that I was condemned; I obeyed to continue to live, and

lived but to obey.

'The last charge that was laid upon me was the one which has to-

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