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 power—with subscriptions, theatrical benefits, etc.—to get her into a hospital for the aged.

"As for the child, if the father does not come forward I will take charge of it myself. It is only three years old, and it doesn't eat much yet. I will work an hour a day longer, and that will be all right.—À vous,

The third, which is in our possession, is no more than an invitation to supper, but is interesting as giving a list of the novelist's intimate friends. It bears no date:—

",—Come to-night (Monday) and sup with me, 46 Rue Ruticr, at 9.30 in the evening.

"I will take no excuse.—Yours,

On his return from Russia, the "wandering Jew of literature," as he called himself with sad significance,