text:  A sovereign prince is the hero--his own daughter whom he has disowned the heroine; and the tale commences by his fighting a man on the street and taking a fancy to his unknown child who is the inhabitant of one of the lowest dens in the St Giles' of Paris! The other _dramatis personae_ are convicts receivers of stolen goods murderers intriguers of all ranks--the aforesaid prince sometimes in the disguise of a workman sometimes of a pickpocket acting the part of a providence among them rewarding the good and punishing the guilty