the Chamber and her Regency was
proclaimed. Lamartine was then so popular that he might have saved the
situation. But the mob broke into the Chamber, shots were fired, and
there was no Lamartine. The Duchesse d'Orleans had to fly, and
fortunately escaped under the protection of the Duc de Nemours, the
only son of Louis Philippe then in Paris, and the dynasty of the
Orleans was lost--never to return. Baron d'Eckstein lost many of his
influential friends at that time, possibly his pension also, but he
had enough to live upon, and he died at last as a very old man in a
Roman Catholic monastery, a most interesting and charming man, whose
memoirs would certainly have been very valuable.

But to return to Burnouf, I never can adequately express my debt of
gratitude to him. He was of the greatest assistance to me in clearing
my thoughts and directing them into one channel. "Either one thing or
the other," he said. "Either study Indian philosophy and begin with
the Upanishads and Sankara's commentary, or study Indian religion and
keep to the Rig-veda, and copy the hymns and Sayana's commentary, and
then you will be our great benefactor." A great benefactor! that was
too much for me, a mere dwarf in the presence of giants. But Burnouf's
words confirmed me more and more in my desire to give myself up to the
Veda.

Burnouf told me not only what Vedic MSS. there were at the
Bibliotheque Royale, he also brought me his own MSS. and lent them to
me to copy, with the condition, however, that I should not smoke while
working at them. He himself did not smoke, and could not bear the
smell of smoke, and he showed me several of his MSS. which had become
quite useless to him, because they smelt of stale tobacco smoke. I
did all I could to guard these sacred treasures against such
profanation.

Another and even more useful warning came to me from Burnouf. "Don't
publish extracts from the commentary only," he said; "if you do, you
will publish what is easy to read, and leave out what is difficult." I
certainly thought that extracts would be sufficient, but I soon found
out that here also Burnouf was right, though there was always the fear
that I should never find a publisher for so immense a work. This fear
I confided to Burnouf, but he always maintained his hopeful view. "The
commentary must be published, depend upon it, and it will be," he
said.

So I stuck to it and went on copying and collating my Sanskrit MSS.,
always trusting tha