She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages share the same fate; and a jade herself, she lived, as jades live, for the space of a morning (or jade). ↩

An ex-convict. ↩

A bullet as large as an egg. ↩

Walter Scott, Lamartine, Vaulabelle, Charras, Quinet, Thiers. ↩

This is the inscription: D.O.M. cy a été écrasé par malheur sous un cahriot, Monsieue Bernard de Brye Marchand a Bruxelle Le [illegible] Fevrier 1637. ↩