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We were alone in the dark robing-roo ht to this touch of the brush

"It will be all right, Monsieur Mouillard, never fear No one has been refused a degree this "

"I am not afraid, Michu"

"When I say 'no one,' there was one refused--you never heard the like Just iht, please, Monsieur Mouillard--i That is nothing extraordinary But this fellow, after the examination was over, recoentleistrate!' Capital, isn't it?"

"Yes, yes"

"You don't see"

"No, Michu, every one has his bothers, you know"

"I said to myself as I looked at you just now, Monsieur Mouillard has some bother Button up all the way, if you please, for a doctor's essay; if-you-please It's a heartache, then?"

"Soed his shoulders and went beforewith an asthmatic chuckle, until we came to the room set apart for the examination

It was the sht froh to spare, and spared as little as it could On the left against the wall is a raised desk for the candidate At the end, on a platform before a bookcase, sit the six exaold-laced caps Between the candidate's desk and the door is a little enclosure for spectators, of whom there were about thirty when I entered

My perfor brilliant, was only fair

The three first examiners had read my essay, especially M Flamaran, who kneell and had enjoyed its novel and audacious propositions He pursed up histhe first question, like an epicure sucking a ripe fruit And when at length he opened it, aeneral silence, it was to carry the discussion at once up to such heights of abstraction that a good nu a word of it, stealthily made for the door

Each successive answer put fresh spirit into hiood; let us carry it a step farther Now supposing--"

And, the deic at his heels, we both went off like inspired lunatics into a world of hypotheses where neverand intoxicating hi We were reasoning about chiues I never realized till then what iination a jurist's head could contain