"Is there any hope?" he said again, bending over her, and speaking in a low, quick, eager tone. And then into his outstretched hands she put her own. Before they went home she told him all that had troubled her. And he, in his turn, told her something. He showed her the little dull balcony between the trees, where once he had pictured her sitting waiting, in the warm glow of light. They went a little nearer, these two, and looked at it. Nannon, who was getting rather tired of her play with the sturdy little woman who went solemnly through her pranks, came across, and asked what they were talking about. "We are settling a new dress for mademoiselle,” said M. Deshouliéres, his honest blue eyes brimming over with fun. "It must be white and something shiny." "White and shiny! But that will be a bride's dress," cried Nannon quickly, all her teeth showing. "So that is it, mademoiselle? I am as happy as a little cat. There is a little good news come at last; for, what with fevers and wickednesses, and that angel of a Jean-Marie wanting to go for a drummer ever since he saw the last review, I can scarcely sleep at night. And monsieur is going to have a deputation and the thanks of the town-has he heard?" They went back slowly through the narrow tangled streets, and past the Evêché into the Place Notre Dame. There rose the Cathedral, golden with the glow of the autumnal sun; there stood the serene statues encompassing it solemnly. Little dappled ranks of clouds rested quietly on the blue heavens, the jackdaws flew in and out of their carved homes; two great hawks that lived up there with them, swooped lazily along, or hung poised in mid-air. After the stifling oppression of the summer, this cool sweet autumn came with a sense of delicious relief. These two had their hearts almost too full for speech, but I do not know that silence was not as sweet to both. 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