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THE BOHEMIANS OF THE LATIN QUARTER.

“Baptiste!” said Marcel, in a white heat, “you have gone beyond your orders. From this day you cease to form part of our household. Take off your livery!”

Baptiste took off the glazed leather cap which composed his livery, and handed it to Marcel.

“Very well,” said the latter; “now you may go.”

“And my wages?”

“Wages? you scamp! You have had fourteen francs in little more than a week. What do you do with so much money? Do you keep a dancer?”

“A rope-dancer? ” suggested Rodolphe.

“Then am I to be left,” said the unhappy domestic, “without a covering for my head!”

“Take your livery,” said Marcel, moved in spite of himsef: and he restored the cap to Baptiste.

“Yet it is that wretch who has wrecked our fortunes,” said Rodolphe, seeing poor Baptiste go out. “Where shall we dine to-day?”

“We shall know to-morrow,” replied Marcel.

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