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'Adieu, my birds!' the pretty child repeated

Her innocent face looked back so brightly over his shoulder, as he

walked aith her, singing her the song of the child's ganon de la Majolaine!

Who passes by this road so late?

Always gay!' that John Baptist felt it a point of honour to reply at the grate, and

in good tih a little hoarsely:

'Of all the king's knights 'tis the flower,

Cohts 'tis the flower,

Always gay!'

which accompanied them so far down the few steep stairs, that the

prison-keeper had to stop at last for his little daughter to hear the

song out, and repeat the Refrain while they were yet in sight Then the

child's head disappeared, and the prison-keeper's head disappeared, but

the little voice prolonged the strain until the door clashed

Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before

the echoes had ceased (even the echoes were the weaker for i), reminded him with a push of his foot that he had