ed Madame Pipelet, in a tone sharp and shrill enough to
have split the tympanum of a deaf man; "Alfred, my old darling, have at
'em! They wanted to behave ill to your 'Stasie (Anastasie)! The nasty
fellows have been taking liberties,--quite violent! Knock them down with
your broom! And call the oyster-woman, and the man at the wine-vaults,
to help you! Get out, you! Get--get--get out! Cht, cht, cht! Thieves!
thieves! robbers! Cht--b-r-r-r-r-r-r--hou, hou, hou! Knock them--knock
them down! That's right, old dear! Pay them off! Break their bones!
Serve them out! Boum, boum, boum!"

And, by way of conclusion to this concatenation of discordant noises,
accompanied by a constant succession of stamping and kicking of feet,
Madame Pipelet, carried away by the excitement of the moment, flung her
earthen stewpan to the bottom of the staircase, which, breaking into a
thousand pieces at the very instant that the two bailiffs, terrified by
the yells and noises from overhead, were precipitately descending the
stairs with hasty strides, added not a little to their terror.

"Ah, ah, ah!" cried Anastasie, bursting into loud fits of laughter. "Now
be off with you,--I think you have had enough!" Then, crossing her arms,
she stood, like a triumphant Amazon, rejoicing in the victory she had
achieved.

While Madame Pipelet was thus venting her rage upon the bailiffs, Morel
had thrown himself, in heartfelt gratitude, at the feet of Rodolph.

"Ah, sir," exclaimed he, when at last words came to his assistance, "you
have saved a whole family! To whom do we owe this unhoped-for
assistance?"

"'To the God who watches over and protects all honest men,' as your
immortal Beranger says."

NOTE.--The following are some curious particulars relative to
bodily restraint, as cited in the "Pauvre Jacques," a journal
published under the patronage of the "Society for the
Furtherance and Protection of Christianity:"

(Prison Committee.) (_Comite des Prisons._)

"A protest and intimation of bodily restraint are generally
carried about by sheriffs' officers, and charged by law, the
first, 4_f._ 35_c._, the second, 4_f._ 70_c._; for these,
however, the officers usually demand, for the former, 10_f._
40_c._, for the second, 16_f._ 40_c._; thus illegally claiming
from the unfortunate victims of law 26_f._ 80_c._, for that
which is fixed by that very law at 9_f._ 50_c._

"For an arrest, the legal charge