THE PORTRAITS OF OCTAVE FEUILLET
[In 1850, after a drawing by the engraver Monciau]
[In 1879, after a sketch made in Geneva]
[After a photograph taken in 1880]
[The last photograph taken in 1889]
[Sketch by Dantan, about 1878]
THE ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN
Sursum corda!
PARIS, April 25, 185-.
The second evening I have passed in this miserable room, staring gloomily at the bare hearth, hearing the dull monotone of the street, and feeling more lonely, more forsaken, and nearer to despair in the heart of this great city than a ship-wrecked man shivering on a broken plank in mid-ocean.