On January 1, 1868, bright and early, Conseil joined me on the platform.
“Will master,” the gallant lad said to me, “allow me to wish him a happy new year?”
“Good heavens, Conseil, it’s just like old times in my office at the Botanical Gardens in Paris! I accept your kind wishes and I thank you for them. Only, I’d like to know what you mean by a ‘happy year’ under the circumstances in which we’re placed. Is it a year that will bring our imprisonment to an end,
On January 1, 1868, bright and early, Conseil joined me on the platform.
“Will master,” the gallant lad said to me, “allow me to wish him a happy new year?”
“Good heavens, Conseil, it’s just like old times in my office at the Botanical Gardens in Paris! I accept your kind wishes and I thank you for them. Only, I’d like to know what you mean by a ‘happy year’ under the circumstances in which we’re placed. Is it a year that will bring our imprisonment to an end,
