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Other lives run from the first another course . Other travellers encounter weather fitful and gusty , wild and variable -- breast adverse winds , are belated and overtaken by the early closing winter night . Neither can this happen without the sanction of God ; and I know that , amidst His boundless works , is somewhere stored the secret of this last fate 's justice : I know that His treasures contain the proof as the promise of its mercy . '' On the first of May , we had all -- i.e. the twenty boarders and the four teachers -- notice to rise at five o'clock of the morning , to be dressed and ready by six , to put ourselves under the command of M. le Professeur Emanuel , who was to head our march forth from Villette , for it was on this day he proposed to fulfil his promise of taking us to breakfast in the country . I , indeed , as the reader may perhaps remember , had not had the honour of an invitation when this excursion was first projected -- rather the contrary ; but on my now making allusion to this fact , and wishing to know how it was to be , my ear received a pull , of which I did not venture to challenge the repetition by raising , further difficulties . `` Je vous conseille de vous faire prier , '' said M. Emanuel , imperially menacing the other ear . One Napoleonic compliment , however , was enough , so I made up my mind to be of the party .