the  face  ever  showed,  resided.  They  persisted  in  changing
colour  sometimes,  and  they  would  be  occasionally  dilated  and
contracted  by  something  like  a  faint  pulsation;  then,  they
gave  a  look  of  treachery,  and  cruelty,  to  the  whole  counte-
nance. Examined  with  attention,  its  capacity  of  helping
such  a  look  was  to  be  found  in  the  line  of  the  mouth,  and
the  lines  of  the  orbits  of  the  eyes,  being  much  too  horizontal
and  thin ;  still,  in  the  effect  the  face  made,  it  was  a  handsome
face,  and  a  remarkable  one.
Its  owner  went  down-stairs  into  the  court-yard,  got  into
his  carriage,  and  drove  away.  Not  many  people  had  talked
with  him  at  the  reception ;  he  had  stood  in  a  little  space
apart,  and  Monseigneur  might  have  been  warmer  in  his
manner.  It  appeared,  under  the  circumstances,  rather  agree-
able to  him  to  see  the  common  people  dispersed  before  his
horses,  and  often  barely  escaping  from  being  run  down.  His
man  drove  as  if  he  were  charging  an  enemy,  and  the  furious
recklessness  of  the  man  brought  no  check  into  the  face,  or
to  the  lips,  of  the  master.  The  complaint  had  sometimes
made  itself  audible,  even  in  that  deaf  city  and  dumb  age,
that,  in  the  narrow  streets  without  footways,  the  fierce
patrician  custom  of  hard  driving  endangered  and  maimed  the
mere  vulgar  in  a  barbarous  manner.  But,  few  cared  enough
for  that  to  think  of  it  a  second  time,  and,  in  this  matter,  as
in  all  others,  the  common  wretches  were  left  to  get  out  of
their  difficulties  as  they  could.
