his horror of eating with the servants was not instinctive with Julien; in order to make his fortune, he would have done far more disagreeable things than that. He had borrowed this aversion from Rousseau's Confessions. It was the only book by which his imagination had formed any idea of society. collection of the bulletins of the Grand Army and the Memorial de Sainte-Helene completed his Koran. He would have died for those three works. He had no faith in any other. Following the old surgeon major's lead, he regarded all the other books in the world as lies, written by cheats for the sake of getting ahead. Besides a fiery soul, Julien had one of those amazing memories that so often go hand in hand with foolish- ness. To win over old Father Chelan, on whom he saw clearly that his whole future depended, he had memorized the whole New Testament in Latin. He also knew the book Du Pape, by M. de Maistre,* and believed as little in the one as in the other.