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The Judge, as he listened, slowly folded his spectacles, and

gazed fixedly at the Monk, but said nothing; he sighed deeply,

and tears stood in his eyes-finally he clasped Robak about the

neck with all his might, exclaiming:-

"My Robak, is this really true? My Robak," he repeated, "is this

really true? How many times they have deceived us! Do you

remember, they said that Napoleon was already on the road? And we

were waiting! They said, he is already in the Kingdom,106 he has

already beaten the Prussians, and is coming in among us! And what

did he do? He made peace at Tilsit.107 Is it really true? Are you

not deceiving yourself?"

"It is the truth," cried Robak, "as God is in Heaven!"