LAPIN.--Fais vrais efforts pour être patient, confiant; vous ne m’aidez guères. Ennuyée jadis me racontiez tout, aujourd’hui, amusée, vien! Faut absolûment que vous écrive une fois, trop injuste me priver seule défense ce qui facile autrefois pas impossible aujourd’hui. Lettre reçue, rien dedans. 1642.--_Saturday, September 5, 1868._ LAPIN.--Lettre Lundi gentille. Demande pas choses compromettantes, seulement noms personnes voyez, genre vie menez. Comme l’an dernier: ouvertement, jamais prohibé. Réticence rend jaloux. 1643.--_Wednesday, September 16, 1868._ LAPIN.--Plus de huit jours sans m’écrire. Je ne peux plus douter de la vérité. Mon cœur est presque brisé. Que Dieu vous pardonne. Adieu. 1644.--_Monday, September 28, 1868._ LAPIN.--J’espére que quand nous nous reverrons, tout s’éclaircira. En attendant, croyez que je ne suis ni injuste pour le passé, ni ingrat pour le présent. 1645.--_Tuesday, September 29, 1868._ MURILLO and EUCLID.--Thursday Red. 1.50 train. 1646.--_Tuesday, October 6, 1868._ FIRST CLASS.--Fare One Shilling. 1647.--_Thursday, October 15, 16, 17, 1868._ B. E. N. (my Premier).--What do you intend to do with “Old Tom,” of Grenoble?--E. W. 1648.--_Monday, October 19, 1868._ B. E. N. (my second).--What is your opinion of Christopher Columbus’s egg trick?--E. W. 1649.--_Tuesday, October 20, 1868._ E. E. N. (My third).--I know that Christopher Columbus’s egg trick was only symbolical, and not real. E. G. G. is, or ought to be, at Southampton.--E. W. 1650.--_Thursday, October 29, 1868._ ONE.--nx--hr hkk; cn mns khjd sn kdaud xds. Gnv knmf mnshbd vntke xnt vams udqx jhmc sgntfgsr. 1651.--_Wednesday, November 4, 1868._ ONE.--Amx cax aesdq sgd svdksg fkae sn ldds, fn vgdqd, ame ar knmf ar xnt khjd. Aesdq h fn sn h Akk oaqshbtkaqr. 1652.--_Friday, November 6, 1868._ B. E. N.--You know what happened to my money and papers in the heart of the city of London. It is utterly impossible to mistake the power that I have to contend with; even here, with success unexpected, unexampled, and unprecedented, i.e., for Vulcan’s head clerk; for me, “Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle!”--CYGNE. 1653.--_Monday, November 9, 1868._ B. E. N. (Cygne).--Does any one want your place? Not one but two aspiring, and, of course, fiery young Vulcan want mine; thus, roasted on both sides, I am sure to be “done brown.” What a fool I was to kill the goose that laid the golden egg! I made sure that it would make my fortune; I have had nothing but misfortune ever since. Like the Romans, my solace is, “Civis Londinum sum.”--Pope’s Head-alley.--MARECHAL. 1654.--_Wednesday, November 11, 1868._ B. E. N. (Cygne).--Hardly the first, as my “silver cord” is already stretched too far. No more “Londinum” for me? Are not the rivers of the East better than the waters of the “Serpentine”? Crocodiles’ eggs only hatch in “Roman” earth. With not a “drop” to drink.--“La VEUVE.” 1655.--_Saturday, November 14, 1868._