"Your very devoted
"S.D."
He tore up the letter into the smallest fragments and returned home in all haste.
A few hours after, Marianne received the following notice:
"To-morrow evening at 7 o'clock, in honour of the Holy Virgin, there will be Salutation and Benediction at the Chapel of St. Anne. The faithful are besought to attend."
[Footnote 1: Thou art man and not God, says the holy book of Consolation, thou art flesh and not an angel. How canst thou always continue in very virtue?]
LX.
TALKS.
"When from the hills fell balmy night,
'Neith the dark foliage of the lofty trees,
Starred by the moon-beams' placid light,
Often we wandered by the water's side."
CAMILLE DELTHIL (Poésie inédite).