"Can't the pieces come together again?" asked the Prince.
"No, no, dear," Mademoiselle answered for me.
"You went to the Falls of Niagara?" Henry resumed.
"They roar terribly, don't they? Can you go down in a boat?"
"Monseigneur, one American amused himself by sending a great barge down; another American, they say, himself jumped into the cataract: he was not destroyed the first time; he tried again and was killed at the second attempt."
The two children lifted up their hands and said:
"Oh!"
Madame de Gontaut joined in the conversation:
"M. de Chateaubriand has been to Egypt and Jerusalem."