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diff --git a/43742-h/43742-h.htm b/43742-h/43742-h.htm index 4c943c6..16d4971 100644 --- a/43742-h/43742-h.htm +++ b/43742-h/43742-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of To Tell You the Truth, by Leonard Merrick. @@ -82,43 +82,9 @@ v:link {color: #800000; text-decoration: none; } </style> </head> <body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43742 ***</div> -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of To Tell You the Truth, by Leonard Merrick - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: To Tell You the Truth - -Author: Leonard Merrick - -Release Date: September 16, 2013 [EBook #43742] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH *** - - - - -Produced by Marc D'Hooghe at http://www.freeliterature.org -(Scans generously made available by the Internet Archive -- Cornell University Library - - - - - - -</pre> <h1>TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH</h1> @@ -142,7 +108,7 @@ Produced by Marc D'Hooghe at http://www.freeliterature.org <div class="center" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right">I</td><td align="left"><a href="#I">MADEMOISELLE MA MÈRE</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right">I</td><td align="left"><a href="#I">MADEMOISELLE MA MÈRE</a></td></tr> <tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right">II</td><td align="left"><a href="#II">ARIBAUD'S TWO WIVES</a></td></tr> <tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right">III</td><td align="left"><a href="#III">THAT VILLAIN HER FATHER</a></td></tr> <tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right">IV</td><td align="left"><a href="#IV">THE STATUE</a></td></tr> @@ -162,11 +128,11 @@ Produced by Marc D'Hooghe at http://www.freeliterature.org <h3><a id="I"></a>I</h3> -<h4>MADEMOISELLE MA MÈRE</h4> +<h4>MADEMOISELLE MA MÈRE</h4> <p>She was born in Chauville-le-Vieux. Her mother gave piano lessons at -the local Lycée de Jeunes Filles, and her father had been "professeur +the local Lycée de Jeunes Filles, and her father had been "professeur de violon" at the little Conservatoire. Music was her destiny. As a hollow-eyed, stunted child, who should have been romping in the unfrequented park, she had been doomed to hours of piano practice in @@ -182,11 +148,11 @@ wan girls reassemble, they sometimes ask one another—curious to hear what novelty the "holidays" may have yielded, amid the home work—"Did you have a little promenade during the <i>vacances</i>?"</p> -<p>Because its Lycée was widely known, English and American families came +<p>Because its Lycée was widely known, English and American families came to stay in Chauville—the English pupils discovering what it was to be taught with enthusiasm—and Marie knew French girls who had been initiated into the pleasures of tea-parties. Open-mouthed, she heard -that the extravagant anglaise or américaine must have spent at least +that the extravagant anglaise or américaine must have spent at least five or six francs on the cakes. But all the foreigners successively grew tired of inviting French children whose astonished mothers sent them trooping as often as they were asked, and, in no case, gave an @@ -218,14 +184,14 @@ to wonder: "Will crowds ever applaud <i>me</i>?" But after the first few days she reduced her expenses, and her allowance for concert-going was strict.</p> -<p>She found a lodging now in the rue Honoré-Chevalier, and sought -engagements for Soirées d'Art and Matinées Artistiques, writing to many +<p>She found a lodging now in the rue Honoré-Chevalier, and sought +engagements for Soirées d'Art and Matinées Artistiques, writing to many people who made no reply, and crossing the bridge to appeal in person to many others, who were inaccessible, or rude.</p> <p>Among the few letters of introduction that she had brought from Chauville, one served its purpose. Madame Herbelin, the Directrice of -the Lycée, always kindly disposed towards her, had recommended her to +the Lycée, always kindly disposed towards her, had recommended her to an acquaintance as a teacher. Thanks to this, she earned five francs each Thursday by a lesson.</p> @@ -267,7 +233,7 @@ a cab-horse and the minor jangle of its bell.</p> <p>Companionship came to her when ten months had gone. A young widow drifted to the house, and now and then, on the stairs, they met. One day they found themselves seated at the same table, in a little -crémerie close by, and over their oeufs-sur-le-plat they talked. As +crémerie close by, and over their oeufs-sur-le-plat they talked. As they walked home together, the widow said:</p> <p>"I always leave my door open to hear you play."</p> @@ -364,8 +330,8 @@ desolation of Chauville in her dreams, the teacher of French was required to go to one of the London branches of the school. It occurred abruptly; the news and the good-bye were almost simultaneous.</p> -<p>A new proclamation of millions to be won, aggrandised "<i>par arrêté -ministériel</i>," was blazoned across the pages of the newspapers; and, on +<p>A new proclamation of millions to be won, aggrandised "<i>par arrêté +ministériel</i>," was blazoned across the pages of the newspapers; and, on impulse, the woman who was "determined never to gamble any more" left a louis with the other, to buy a ticket for her.</p> @@ -398,7 +364,7 @@ the big bank. "Lamande," she answered—and asked herself afterwards if it would have been more businesslike to say "Branthonne." But it didn't seem to matter. The point that perplexed her was, in whose charge ought the ticket to be? It belonged to the baby now, and its possibilities -extended through the year. "Série No. 78, Billet No. 19,333." Ought she +extended through the year. "Série No. 78, Billet No. 19,333." Ought she to post it confidingly to the dairy-keeper when she learnt where she lived?</p> @@ -413,7 +379,7 @@ Chauville and despair.</p> <p>In the first drawing of the lottery, a few days later, the ticket won a prize of twelve thousand francs.</p> -<p>In a crumpled copy of <i>Le Petit Journal</i>, in the crémerie, she read +<p>In a crumpled copy of <i>Le Petit Journal</i>, in the crémerie, she read of the drawing, by chance—not having remembered for what date it was announced. And she took a copy of the paper home with her—having forgotten the number of the ticket that she had bought. And when the @@ -485,7 +451,7 @@ the gift suggested means, she received, before the date for her second remittance, a scrawl declaring that the cost of provisions had risen dreadfully, and asking for twenty francs a month more.</p> -<p>"RÉCITAL DONNÉ PAR MADEMOISELLE MARIE LAMANDE." A blue-and-white +<p>"RÉCITAL DONNÉ PAR MADEMOISELLE MARIE LAMANDE." A blue-and-white poster, with her name staring Paris in the face. The time came when she saw one on a wall, and stopped, thrilling at it in the rain. A week afterwards she saw one on a wall again, and passed it with a sigh, @@ -495,7 +461,7 @@ remembering the half-empty salle, and the cheques that she had drawn.</p> day; one must persevere." There were plenty of persons to give her encouragement now that it might be advantageous to them.</p> -<p>But the expense of her début was a warning, and she proceeded slowly. +<p>But the expense of her début was a warning, and she proceeded slowly. Though they made her feel very shy and cowardly, she did not succumb to the arguments of vehement people who offered "opportunities the most exceptional" at a big price, and whose attitudes of amazement implied @@ -575,7 +541,7 @@ be carried, and she picked him up—submissive to her burden. She had had to sacrifice her reputation, or the child—and mademoiselle Lamande returned to her native town with a baby in her arms.</p> -<p>She had booked to the Gare du Marché, the station in the poorest +<p>She had booked to the Gare du Marché, the station in the poorest quarter. A porter followed, trundling the luggage over the cobbles. In a narrow bed, under a skylight, the child and anxiety allowed her little sleep.</p> @@ -586,11 +552,11 @@ in the morning she questioned a servant who was sweeping the stairs. The girl looked as if she had been picked from a dust-bin, and clothed from a rag-bag, but, compared with English girls of her class, she had brilliant intelligence. She thought it probable that the woman at the -épicerie across the road might be accommodating.</p> +épicerie across the road might be accommodating.</p> -<p>The woman at the épicerie was unable to arrange, but she suggested a -concierge of her acquaintance "là bas." "Là bas" proved to be remote. -Chauville had not changed. As of old, the door of the Église Ste. +<p>The woman at the épicerie was unable to arrange, but she suggested a +concierge of her acquaintance "là bas." "Là bas" proved to be remote. +Chauville had not changed. As of old, the door of the Église Ste. Clothilde was lost in its vast frame of funeral black; as of old, the insistent bell was dinning for the dead. The population was still concealed, except where a cortege of priests, and acolytes, and @@ -609,7 +575,7 @@ anything more valuable.</p> <p>There was, however, another occasion. This time the lady said: "Mademoiselle, I knew you when you were a little girl, and I knew your parents, and I have regretted, more than you may suppose, that it was -not in my power to offer you an appointment at the Lycée, in your +not in my power to offer you an appointment at the Lycée, in your emergency. But I have recently heard something about you that is very grave—something that I trust is not true."</p> @@ -659,7 +625,7 @@ say more."</p> <p>A permanent home for him, not far from the rue Lecomte, was found at a bonneterie, whose humble little window contained Communion caps, and -the announcement "Piqures à la Machine."</p> +the announcement "Piqures à la Machine."</p> <p>To have had him in her lodging would have cost her less. But this child that dishonoured her must be covert from the jeunes filles that she @@ -720,7 +686,7 @@ same. Make the most of this opportunity; go unencumbered—do not live your whole life in shadow for the sake of an ideal."</p> <p>But her conscience would not allow her to see him only once a year, nor -to leave him to play on the doorstep, and attend the École Communale. +to leave him to play on the doorstep, and attend the École Communale. In view of a constant salary, she already foresaw herself alleviating his plight. She was resigned to live her life in shadow, that she might yield a little sunshine to him.</p> @@ -732,7 +698,7 @@ wrong to befriend her—perhaps she is a bad woman, after all!"</p> <p>She did not venture to take the boy with her, however. She was more than three months at Ivry before her furtive arrangements for him were concluded. Then she placed him with priests twenty miles distant from -her, in the Etablissement des Frères Eudoxie at Maison-Verte. Small as +her, in the Etablissement des Frères Eudoxie at Maison-Verte. Small as the annual charges were, they were vast in relation to her salary. Till she succeeded, by slow degrees, in obtaining a few private pupils, her self-denial was severe.</p> @@ -747,12 +713,12 @@ long.</p> <p>Paul looked forward to her rare visits. Some of the boys had visitors more frequently than he, pale women who came to walk beside them in -the cour; and the boastful shout of "Ma mère!" was often humiliating +the cour; and the boastful shout of "Ma mère!" was often humiliating to Paul. He had been taught to call her "mademoiselle," but one Sunday, the child, in a triumphant cry, found his own name for her: -"<i>Mademoiselle ma mère est venue!</i>"</p> +"<i>Mademoiselle ma mère est venue!</i>"</p> -<p>After that, he called her always "Mademoiselle ma mère"; and, divining +<p>After that, he called her always "Mademoiselle ma mère"; and, divining something of the little wistful heart, mademoiselle did not reprove him.</p> <p>At Ivry-St.-Hilaire a thing strange and bewildering happened. For @@ -826,7 +792,7 @@ France. He said that nothing mattered to him but their "divine love." He looked more heroic still, and his eyes were moist with the nobility of the sentiments that he was delivering.</p> -<p>But as he sat in the principal café of the town by and by, among the +<p>But as he sat in the principal café of the town by and by, among the stacks of swords in the corners, and the elite of the military and civil circles, clearing their throats vociferously on to the floor, he knew that a few days hence he meant to deliver a second lie about the @@ -887,7 +853,7 @@ celibate, caught glimpses of maternity. "In the <i>vacances</i>, Paul, I'll come and stay at Maison-Verte," she used to say, "and we'll have picnics in the park!" When the <i>trimestre</i> was over and she studied his report, her smile was proud. Once when she went, he rushed to meet her -with a prize. "Mademoiselle ma mère, look, look!" he halloed. And the +with a prize. "Mademoiselle ma mère, look, look!" he halloed. And the virgin's arms were flung about him and she hugged him like a mother.</p> <p>As a mother she marked his progress, year by year; as a mother, @@ -1067,7 +1033,7 @@ punishment, but then I loved you!"</p> <p>"You have borne want for me, and contempt. I have taken your youth from you, and your happiness and your strength." He went to her, and knelt, and kissed the trembling hands. "How <i>I</i> love <i>you</i>," he cried, -"mademoiselle ma mère!"</p> +"mademoiselle ma mère!"</p> @@ -1091,10 +1057,10 @@ nurse said, "I tell madam we must be pietient with 'im; we can't expect 'im to talk like I do hall at once."</p> <p>Also the lady informed me that they had finished arranging their -new house, and that on the morrow I must go there to déjeuner. Very +new house, and that on the morrow I must go there to déjeuner. Very readily I went, and they showed me the "English nursery," and an American contrivance that she had presented to her husband for his -dressing-room—"<i>Comme ils sont pratiques, les américains</i>!"—and an +dressing-room—"<i>Comme ils sont pratiques, les américains</i>!"—and an antique or two that she had picked up for his study; and, not least, she showed us both some croquettes de pommes that looked ethereal and—I have never tasted croquettes de pommes like madame Aribaud's! @@ -1110,7 +1076,7 @@ child disturb you out there when you're busy?"</p> <p>My friend nodded. "Sometimes," he acknowledged, "he disturbs me. What would you have? He must play, and the 'garden' is too diminutive for -him to go far away in it. It makes me think of what Dumas père said +him to go far away in it. It makes me think of what Dumas père said when he paid a visit to his son's chalet in the suburbs—'Open your dining-room window and give your garden some air!' Once or twice I have wondered whether I should work in a front room, instead, but to tell @@ -1142,7 +1108,7 @@ you are interested only in the players—none of them was so congenial that I was tempted to announce my ambitions to him. I used to think how exciting it must be to know authors and artists, even though they were obscure and out-at-elbows. Every night, as I walked home and passed the -windows of a bohemian café I used to look at it wistfully. I envied the +windows of a bohemian café I used to look at it wistfully. I envied the fiercest disappointments of the habitues inside, for they were at least professionals of sorts; they moved on a different planet from myself. Once in a blue moon I found the resolution to enter, pushing the door @@ -1152,19 +1118,19 @@ yield confidences, perhaps a comrade for life. But I sat in the place embarrassed, with the air of an intruder, and came out feeling even lonelier than when I went in.</p> -<p>"One windy, wet day I was at the mont-de-piété to redeem my watch. +<p>"One windy, wet day I was at the mont-de-piété to redeem my watch. I had pawned it two or three weeks before, because I had seen a second-hand copy of a book that I wanted very much and couldn't afford at the moment. I will not inquire whether you have ever pawned anything in Paris, yourself, but if you haven't, you may not know the -formalities of the <i>dégagement</i>. Ah, you have pawned things only in +formalities of the <i>dégagement</i>. Ah, you have pawned things only in London.</p> <p>"Well, after you have paid the principal and the interest, you are given a numbered ticket, and then you go into a large room and take your choice among uncomfortable benches, and wait your turn. It is -something like cashing a cheque at the head office of the Crédit -Lyonnais, only at the mont-de-piété the people on the benches sit +something like cashing a cheque at the head office of the Crédit +Lyonnais, only at the mont-de-piété the people on the benches sit waiting for the most disparate articles. On one side of you, there may be a fashionably dressed woman who rises to receive a jewel-case—and on the other, some piteous creature who clutches at a bundle. The goods @@ -1213,7 +1179,7 @@ courtship.</p> <p>"She was as solitary as I; her father's death had left her quite alone. He had been old, and very poor. Blind, too. But his work had been done up to the last, my little sweetheart guiding him to the houses—he -had earned a living as a piano-tuner. In Sèvres she had an aunt, his +had earned a living as a piano-tuner. In Sèvres she had an aunt, his sister-in-law; but though the woman boasted a respectable business and was fairly well-to-do, she had come foward with nothing more substantial than advice, and the orphan had had only her typewriter to @@ -1228,7 +1194,7 @@ after the Magasins du Louvre closed—the lonely clerk used to hurry to meet the little typist on her way home. Yet she told me once that her love for them had come very late; for years the sight of all flowers had saddened her. She had been born on that melancholy -boulevard that leads to the cemetery of Père La Chaise, that quarter +boulevard that leads to the cemetery of Père La Chaise, that quarter of it where one sees, exposed for sale, nothing but floral tokens for the mourners—nothing to right and left but mountains of artificial wreaths, and drear chrysanthemums in stiff white paper cones. As a @@ -1240,29 +1206,29 @@ trees had whitened and the lamps were gleaming; and when the trees grew green and we walked in sunshine. It was in the streets that we fell in love—in the streets that I asked her if she would marry me.</p> -<p>"We were on the quai des Orfèvres one Sunday afternoon in summer. I +<p>"We were on the quai des Orfèvres one Sunday afternoon in summer. I had meant to wait till we were in the Garden of the Tuileries, but we had stopped to look at the river, and I can see it all now, the barge folk's washing hanging out to bleach, and a woman knitting among the geraniums on a deck. There was a little fishing-tackle shop, I -remember, called 'Au Bon Pêcheur,' and a poodle and a Persian cat were +remember, called 'Au Bon Pêcheur,' and a poodle and a Persian cat were basking together on the doorstep. Our hands just touched, because of the people passing; and then we went on to the Tuileries, and talked. And before we seemed to have talked much, it was moonlight; a concert had begun, and away in the distance a violinist was playing -<i>La Précieuse</i>. 'Why,' I exclaimed,' I've given you no dinner!' She +<i>La Précieuse</i>. 'Why,' I exclaimed,' I've given you no dinner!' She laughed; she hadn't been hungry, either. No millionaires have ever dined at Armenonville more merrily than we, for a hundred sous, at a little table on a sidewalk.</p> <p>"She said, 'When I am your wife, I shall type-write all your plays for you, Maurice—perhaps that will bring you luck.' And by and by, when we -came to the Magasins du Louvre, she pointed to the Comédie-Française: +came to the Magasins du Louvre, she pointed to the Comédie-Française: 'You haven't far to travel to reach it, dearest!' she smiled—'we'll cross the road together.'</p> <p>"How sweet she looked in the wedding frock that she had stitched! How -proud I was of her! Our ménage was two rooms on the left bank; and in +proud I was of her! Our ménage was two rooms on the left bank; and in the evening, in our tiny salon on the sixth floor, her devoted hands clattered away on her machine, transcribing my manuscript, till I kissed and held them prisoners. Didn't she work hard enough all day for @@ -1318,8 +1284,8 @@ the audience gave, her clutching my hand; and how she clung to me, sobbing and comforting, when we got home and knew that the piece had failed.</p> -<p>"I had a short run the next autumn with <i>Successeur de Son Père</i>, but -my first hit, of course, was <i>Les Huit Jours de Léonie</i>. When that was +<p>"I had a short run the next autumn with <i>Successeur de Son Père</i>, but +my first hit, of course, was <i>Les Huit Jours de Léonie</i>. When that was produced, the fees came tumbling in.</p> <p>"Weren't we dazed at the beginning! And how important we felt to be @@ -1386,8 +1352,8 @@ wife in the box is a much more dignified figure than a dramatist's wife rehearsing a trivial part and being corrected by the stage-manager.'</p> <p>"'I did not mean trivial parts,' she said disconsolately—and I -realised for the first time that she had been dreaming of a début in -the principal rôle. But she let the discussion drop, and I half thought +realised for the first time that she had been dreaming of a début in +the principal rôle. But she let the discussion drop, and I half thought I had convinced her.</p> <p>"I was very much mistaken. A few weeks later she referred to it again, @@ -1452,7 +1418,7 @@ one!' I have been told that strangers who pestered me for theatrical engagements complained that I was unsympathetic—they little guessed how I was pestered for engagements on my own hearth!</p> -<p>"The aunt at Sèvres also had something to say. She had managed to get +<p>"The aunt at Sèvres also had something to say. She had managed to get on a semi-friendly footing with us when <i>Les Huit Jours</i> was running, and now she had the effrontery to take the tone of a mother-in-law with me. She 'knew I was devoted to her niece, but I was not being fair to @@ -1532,7 +1498,7 @@ my last hope had come out upside down!"</p> <hr class="tb" /> <p>Aribaud paused again. On the little lawn the child had left the swing; -the most devoted of wives and mothers was playing <i>chat perché</i> with +the most devoted of wives and mothers was playing <i>chat perché</i> with him now. They made a pretty picture, but my thoughts were with her predecessor; I was mourning the love-story that had begun like an idyll, and that seemed to have had so bad an end.</p> @@ -1645,7 +1611,7 @@ do you such services."</p> here for Blanche, alone with me. I have done my best for her, I am not consciously selfish—I have sat at home when I wanted to go out, and gone out when I wanted to stop at home. I have taken her to the -Français and pretended to enjoy myself, though I could have yawned my +Français and pretended to enjoy myself, though I could have yawned my head off, and the question of her clothes has absorbed me more than the affairs of France. But I am old. All my tenderness for her cannot alter that."</p> @@ -1702,8 +1668,8 @@ dress—what it should be made of."</p> <p>Vauquelin reflected, "She has three sterling qualities, this girl—she is pretty, she is nice, and she looks at me as if I were a young man."</p> -<p>During the next six weeks Vauquelin developed a zest for the Français -that was astonishing. And not for the Français only, or for the Opéra +<p>During the next six weeks Vauquelin developed a zest for the Français +that was astonishing. And not for the Français only, or for the Opéra Comique, and concerts, and kinemas. Blanche had never applauded her papa so ardently. He would be seized with captivating whims for expeditions, and picnics, and moonlight runs in the car. His @@ -1737,13 +1703,13 @@ stick it much longer. She is miserable with them."</p> likes."</p> <p>"<i>Mais—Comment donc</i>? She cannot live by herself—une jeune fille, -bien élevée! What an idea! Her people would never sanction it."</p> +bien élevée! What an idea! Her people would never sanction it."</p> <p>"I think they would be rather glad to get rid of her," said Blanche, choosing a chocolate with deliberation.</p> <p>"But—but it is monstrous! To live like a bohemian, <i>she</i>! It is -unheard of, terrible. Is she out of her mind? Listen, ma chérie, if her +unheard of, terrible. Is she out of her mind? Listen, ma chérie, if her plight upsets you so violently, she can make her home with us."</p> <p>"Ah, papa!" cried Blanche in ecstasy. "It is the very thing I thought @@ -1782,7 +1748,7 @@ family. Blanche was relieved to note that her papa was not driven to the seclusion of his study often; and never did he withdraw to it when Blanche was absent, to take her music-lesson. As he had predicted, Vauquelin adapted himself to the arrangement plastically. He approved -it so much, especially the tête-à-tête during the music-lessons, that +it so much, especially the tête-à -tête during the music-lessons, that when six months had flashed by, he resented an incident which reminded him that it couldn't be permanent. A monsieur Brigard, an old comrade, arrived to advocate nothing less than that Blanche should espouse @@ -1798,7 +1764,7 @@ together, Georgette asked him what his worry was.</p> <p>"Nothing. I am a little—we must all think of the future, our children's future. A father has responsibilities."</p> -<p>"À propos de—what? Am I inquisitive?"</p> +<p>"À propos de—what? Am I inquisitive?"</p> <p>"Do I not confide everything to you? Some pest has made matrimonial overtures about his son. Preposterous."</p> @@ -1912,7 +1878,7 @@ require to be a father to know that."</p> <p>"You could always go to see her."</p> -<p>"Flûte!"</p> +<p>"Flûte!"</p> <p>"And your grandchildren. Respectful grandchildren that clustered at your knee."</p> @@ -1978,7 +1944,7 @@ own portrait?"</p> <h4>THE STATUE</h4> -<p>In the Square d'Iéna, which teems with little Parisians in charge of +<p>In the Square d'Iéna, which teems with little Parisians in charge of English nurses, Vera Simpson wheeled the baby-carriage to a bench on fine mornings, and exchanged patriotic sentiments with her compeers. When disparagement of France flagged, Vera Simpson occasionally @@ -1999,7 +1965,7 @@ nicknamed him the "rum 'un."</p> and stood before it just as stupidly and as long as the man had done. The most comical bit was that, when she turned away at last, it was seen that the statue had been making the woman cry. After that, neither -of the funny pair came back to the Square d'Iéna; but as Vera Simpson +of the funny pair came back to the Square d'Iéna; but as Vera Simpson chooses the same bench still, she sometimes recalls their queerness and, before her mind wanders, tries again to guess their game. This was the game that Vera Simpson tries to guess.</p> @@ -2040,7 +2006,7 @@ got a studio here. Still, what deference! he had written to her as if she were of the ancienne noblesse.</p> <p>But if he hadn't a studio, where did he expect her to pose? Did he want -her to go to him in the country? Yes, that must be it. Flûte! Gaby +her to go to him in the country? Yes, that must be it. Flûte! Gaby didn't think it would be good enough—the end of the dead season was in sight at last, and in Paris she would often be booked for two studios a day. Nevertheless she was eager to hear what he had to say for himself. @@ -2054,7 +2020,7 @@ he might even spring to a meal.</p> francs, one found a homely dinner, inclusive of wine, and a cripple who wore a red jacket, to look like a Tzigane, and chanted to a mandoline. The "artistes" were chiefly models, and the lesser lights -of a café-concert. As most of the company knew one another, and the +of a café-concert. As most of the company knew one another, and the proprietress called many of the ladies by their Christian names, and played piquet with them between midnight and 2 a.m., the tone of the restaurant was as informal as a family party. When Gaby arrived, @@ -2082,7 +2048,7 @@ carelessly moving towards it.</p> <p>They sat down now, and the waitress, whose tone was informal too, whisked over with, "And for mademoiselle Dupuy?"</p> -<p>"Give me a glass of madère, Louise," she said.</p> +<p>"Give me a glass of madère, Louise," she said.</p> <p>Still the young man seemed unable to find his tongue, and she went on:</p> @@ -2142,10 +2108,10 @@ invitation was constrained, and her acceptance listless.</p> was his guest as well; he must have wondered how it had happened. Also it may have startled him, when he made to fill Gaby's glass from one of the little decanters that stood before them, to learn that she "did not -take it" and to see a bottle labelled "Pouilly Fuissé" display itself +take it" and to see a bottle labelled "Pouilly Fuissé" display itself before he could say "Why?" for he had not heard it ordered. He heard no order given for the second bottle that he beheld, nor for the tarte aux -cérises that graced their repast—a delicacy that was not a feature +cérises that graced their repast—a delicacy that was not a feature of the other people's. But though these incidents may have caused him disquietude, since he was far from having an air of wealth, he manifested no objection to them. Gaby allowed that that was <i>gentil</i>. @@ -2155,7 +2121,7 @@ the veil. It was queer that the more she prattled, the more despondent he grew. She found him piquing her curiosity.</p> <p>When a bill for twenty-nine francs fifty was presented to him, after -the café filtré and Egyptian cigarettes, Gaby put out her hand for it +the café filtré and Egyptian cigarettes, Gaby put out her hand for it and knocked off four francs without discussion. "I don't let them make their little mistakes with friends of mine," she told him languidly, rising. "I am going home to get my coat—you can come with me." He @@ -2186,7 +2152,7 @@ I thought it would be."</p> <p>"You make me curious."</p> <p>"Listen," he exclaimed. "I had had two passions in my life—music, and -the poetry of Richardière! No other poet has meant half—a tithe—so +the poetry of Richardière! No other poet has meant half—a tithe—so much to me as he. His work inspired me when I was a boy; if I had had the means, I would have taken the journey to Paris just to wait on the pavement and see his face when he went out. When he died——Of course @@ -2194,7 +2160,7 @@ all France mourned his loss, but none but his dearest friends, I think, could have felt as I did. Well, since I have been a man I have made an opera of his <i>Arizath</i>, and I came to Paris last week because there was a prospect of its being produced. Five minutes after I had found a room -at an hotel, I was asking my way to the Square d'Iéna to see the statue +at an hotel, I was asking my way to the Square d'Iéna to see the statue to him. I knew nothing about it excepting that it had been erected there—and as I approached it my heart sank: I had always pictured a statue of the man, and I saw merely a bust of him—the statue was of a @@ -2229,14 +2195,14 @@ have stirred me to more reverence if they had had sight. And while I looked at them, they seemed, by an optical illusion, to meet my own. Not with interest; with an unconsciousness that mortified me—they seemed to gaze through my insignificance into the greatness -of Richardière. I blinked, I suppose, for the next instant they had +of Richardière. I blinked, I suppose, for the next instant they had been averted. I wanted them to come back, to realise my presence. I concentrated all my will upon the effort to trick myself once more—and I could have sworn they turned. Now, too, they seemed to notice me; there was a smile in them, an ironical smile—they smiled at the presumption of my linking an immortal poet's work with mine! Insane? But I felt it, I shrank from the derision. Again I raised my head to -Richardière, and for the first time I remarked that his expression was +Richardière, and for the first time I remarked that his expression was a poor acknowledgment of the figure's homage. It was consequential and impertinent. A tinge of cruelty in it, even. He had an air of sensualism, of one who held women very light. I could imagine his @@ -2252,16 +2218,16 @@ the thought was born—that there was comprehension in the gaze, that my worship, though undesired, was understood. In the afternoon I had a business appointment that I had been thinking about for weeks, but instead of being excited by its nearness, I regretted that it obliged -me to leave the Square d'Iéna. When I kept the appointment, the bad +me to leave the Square d'Iéna. When I kept the appointment, the bad news that there had been a delay in the arrangements hardly troubled me—I was impatient only to be outside. Originally my plan had been to see the Louvre as soon as the business was over—now my one desire was to return to the statue. It was a delight to hasten to it; people must have thought me bound for a rendezvous, as I strode smiling through -the streets. Not once did I regard the arrogance of Richardière on the +the streets. Not once did I regard the arrogance of Richardière on the pedestal, but it was only in moments that the musing figure ceased to remind me that her god was there. Though I never looked at it, -an intense repugnance to the face of Richardière was in my blood—a +an intense repugnance to the face of Richardière was in my blood—a jealousy, if you will! It possessed me while I was away—while I was reiterating that I had made my last visit to the square, knowing nevertheless that on the morrow I should yield again. The jealousy @@ -2364,7 +2330,7 @@ you choose to call me one—but it isn't that."</p> such gowns as Beauvais put on me for the statue. Is it the way my hair is dressed? I can dress it like the statue again. The brow? You liked the brow. Well, look! time hasn't been so rough on me there—the brow -is young. And you need not be jealous of my thoughts of Richardière, +is young. And you need not be jealous of my thoughts of Richardière, for I have never read a single word he wrote. What is there lacking in me? Tell me what you miss."</p> @@ -2409,7 +2375,7 @@ arms.</p> and stood before it just as stupidly and as long as he had done. The most comical bit was that, when she turned away at last, it was seen that the statue had been making the woman cry. After that, neither of -the funny pair came back to the Square d'Iéna; but as Vera Simpson +the funny pair came back to the Square d'Iéna; but as Vera Simpson chooses the same bench still, she sometimes recalls their queerness and, before her mind wanders, tries again to guess their game. This was the game that an English nursemaid tries to guess.</p> @@ -2736,7 +2702,7 @@ I hope he will give me the pleasure, too?"</p> <p>"No, I'm not married," she said.</p> <p>"Like me, you've been too busy. You know, I really think our victories -should be fêted. It'd be friendly of you to come. You can find one +should be fêted. It'd be friendly of you to come. You can find one evening free before I go back?"</p> <p>"I suppose," she said, trying to laugh, "I'm not so full of engagements @@ -2780,7 +2746,7 @@ solitary, and to loll in stalls at the theatres, instead of being jammed in the pit, would have seemed livelier to him if he had had a companion. In the circumstances, it was not astonishing that he proposed to take Irene Barton to the theatre a night or two later—and -as he insisted a good deal, she compromised with a matinée.</p> +as he insisted a good deal, she compromised with a matinée.</p> <p>Somehow or other he was having tea with her, at the club again, the day afterwards. And on the day after that, there was something else.</p> @@ -2919,7 +2885,7 @@ figure that broke the tragic tidings to the widow.</p> <p>Well, it is not pretended that Picq had genius; for such parts as fell to him he had not even marked ability. But the truth is, that in the -rôle of romantic hero, which he had not had a chance to play, he would +rôle of romantic hero, which he had not had a chance to play, he would have been good. The laughing chambermaid used to say he would have been splendid. Often they grieved over the bad luck that had attended him, as they reviewed the years of struggle, hand in hand. He had married @@ -3050,7 +3016,7 @@ am going now. I am going to the chap's house to tell him plainly I am not content."</p> <p>"Mais non, mais non!" demurred Nanette piteously. "It would cost such a -lot, chéri—what are you thinking about? I shall get all right without +lot, chéri—what are you thinking about? I shall get all right without that. You mustn't take any notice of me; I am a coward—I have never been used to feeling ill, you see—but I shall get all right without that."</p> @@ -3060,7 +3026,7 @@ that."</p> forty francs or five hundred, my mind is made up. I am going to him this moment to tell him I want the highest authority in Paris. Now, be tranquil, mignonne. Try to sleep. We have chosen the shortest course at -last—we were bien bêtes not to take it at the start—and in a week at +last—we were bien bêtes not to take it at the start—and in a week at the outside you will be yourself again."</p> <p>Never in her life had Nanette contemplated spending forty francs all @@ -3136,7 +3102,7 @@ time."</p> <p>"And it is Jean's birthday," she wailed.</p> <p>"Yes, it is unfortunate. It cannot be helped. Well, we shall have our -fête when you come home instead, and—listen, listen! We will drink +fête when you come home instead, and—listen, listen! We will drink his health at a restaurant—we will make up for the delay. To the devil with the cost! When you come home cured, we will have a swagger supper out, to celebrate the double event. Nanette—it is useless to @@ -3149,14 +3115,14 @@ silk dress!"</p> <p>"Now thou art going to say something foolish."</p> <p>"No; we will have that supper on the Boulevard. After the awful expense -I shall have been, two louis more or less——But let us fête Jean the +I shall have been, two louis more or less——But let us fête Jean the same as usual to-night. We must. We've never missed doing it once since he was a baby; I couldn't bear to let the day go by without our doing that. Think of the danger he is in. Get champagne as you always do. If it would be bad for me, I won't take any; but get it! My illness mustn't spoil the birthday altogether. Get it, and we'll forget about -me for an hour. Chéri, I shall go into the hospital braver in the -morning for having had our fête."</p> +me for an hour. Chéri, I shall go into the hospital braver in the +morning for having had our fête."</p> <p>"Agreed, agreed," said Picq chokingly. "But it will be a poor treat to me, if I am to drink it alone. I shall ask if you may take a sip."</p> @@ -3180,7 +3146,7 @@ then."</p> <p>During the performance, the bottle of paltry wine stood among the articles of make-up on the table of his dressing-room; and in his wait in the last act, he sat staring at it, and thinking of the days when -his boy in the 120ième Régiment Territorial had been a tiny child, and +his boy in the 120ième Régiment Territorial had been a tiny child, and the wife who was so ill had been all sunshine and laughter. It had not been withheld from him, on the doorstep, in the morning, that the operation would be a serious one, and he felt sick in contemplating @@ -3271,7 +3237,7 @@ aside, but she meant to hide them. She welcomed him with a smile. "Champagne <i>and</i> a cab? What next?"</p> <p>"Yes, what do you think of it? I was in a hurry to get back. How has it -been with you, chérie—has the evening seemed very long? Well, there is +been with you, chérie—has the evening seemed very long? Well, there is good news—you may have a glass."</p> <p>"He was sure?"</p> @@ -3444,7 +3410,7 @@ she has him with her now."</p> <h4>A FLAT TO SPARE</h4> -<p>At the corner of the rue Baba stands the Maison Séverin, with its board +<p>At the corner of the rue Baba stands the Maison Séverin, with its board announcing furnished flats to let. One December evening a journalist went to call upon a colleague there. As he climbed the last flight of stairs, a door was opened violently and a gesticulating female @@ -3529,7 +3495,7 @@ no drawback.</p> she betook herself to kindred spirits, and burst in upon them to demand their services.</p> -<p>"Mais, ma chère," gasped mademoiselle Tisserand and mademoiselle +<p>"Mais, ma chère," gasped mademoiselle Tisserand and mademoiselle Lagarde, "we have never acted as seconds in a duel, never! We implore you to dismiss the notion; we counsel you to treat the abuse with the silent scorn that it deserves. The man might run you through your @@ -3653,7 +3619,7 @@ representatives. Mesdemoiselles, bonjour."</p> <p>"And now I have got a duel on my hands, as well as two babies in my arms!" he reflected. "Jobic is an imbecile. Why did I trust him? That -sacrée bonne! her desertion is giving me a fine time. I should like to +sacrée bonne! her desertion is giving me a fine time. I should like to wring her neck." He spent a feverish afternoon at registry offices. Suzanne was exasperated too. The news of the demand for a deputy was a heavy blow, for she couldn't think of anybody likely to oblige her. @@ -3670,7 +3636,7 @@ intention to supervise the removal of some of its dust this morning. Late in the afternoon she ran round to see how matters had progressed without her. A damsel from a registry office in the quarter had undertaken to commence the work punctually at 8 a.m. The flat was in -the Maison Séverin. All unconscious that she was to dwell beneath the +the Maison Séverin. All unconscious that she was to dwell beneath the same roof as the villain she had challenged, Suzanne ascended, sanguine of seeing the clean curtains up.</p> @@ -3713,7 +3679,7 @@ not see."</p> <p>"Next, please," said the fat woman, shrugging her shoulders.</p> <p>"Madame," began Suzanne, vehemently, "I must ask you to find another -femme-de-ménage for me immediately, if you please—your Angélique that +femme-de-ménage for me immediately, if you please—your Angélique that I settled with here has never turned up!"</p> <p>"There you are!" cried Pariset. "Everybody says the same thing."</p> @@ -3778,9 +3744,9 @@ mademoiselle."</p> <p>"No matter. I renounce my claim in favour of mademoiselle."</p> <p>The proprietress dipped the pen in the inkpot: "Mademoiselle goes to -the Maison Séverin, n'est ce pas?"</p> +the Maison Séverin, n'est ce pas?"</p> -<p>"What?" cried Pariset. "The Maison Séverin? It is at the Maison Séverin +<p>"What?" cried Pariset. "The Maison Séverin? It is at the Maison Séverin you have taken a flat, mademoiselle? Why, that is my address, too! What storey are you on?"</p> @@ -3996,7 +3962,7 @@ agreeable to me at the registry office."</p> <p>"I? I find you hideous?" vociferated Pariset. "It was not I who wrote it; not a single word was mine, believe me! My bonne flounced off last night, and the twins kept me at home. I entrusted the job to a -dunderheaded confrère. Ah, mon Dieu, 'since I found you hideous'! The +dunderheaded confrère. Ah, mon Dieu, 'since I found you hideous'! The spirituality of your face is an inspiration. I admire you with all my heart. Yes, I shall confess it, with all my heart! I love you! Do not condemn me for a column that I did not perpetrate—be merciful, @@ -4597,12 +4563,12 @@ how securely a man who had a mind to do so might lie hidden within an hour's journey of the Grand Boulevard. It was really the disappearance of Thibaudin and Hazard that originated my Idea.</p> -<p>I was manager at that period of the Théâtre Suprême, where we were +<p>I was manager at that period of the Théâtre Suprême, where we were very soon to produce Beauregard's play, <i>Omphale</i>. I descried a way to attract additional attention to our project. I went to see Beauregard one October morning, and gave him a shock. He was breakfasting in bed.</p> -<p>"Bonjour, maître," I said. "Are you too much occupied to talk business?"</p> +<p>"Bonjour, maître," I said. "Are you too much occupied to talk business?"</p> <p>"Panage," exclaimed the dramatist, "if you have come to demand any more mutilations of the manuscript, I tell you without parleying that no @@ -4641,7 +4607,7 @@ to our going to Crete and discovering them?"</p> indolent and had never travelled further than Trouville?</p> <p>"What think you of exploring the Minotaur's lair?" I questioned. "Of -penetrating to the apartments of Phædra? Of examining with your own +penetrating to the apartments of Phædra? Of examining with your own eyes the labyrinth of Ariadne?"</p> <p>"I?" he ejaculated.</p> @@ -4691,12 +4657,12 @@ in South America, they are probably concealed within an easy run of the gare St. Lazare, waiting till the search is relaxed. What about one of the little seaside places in Normandy—have you ever stumbled on one of them a day after the season finished? There is nobody left but the -garde-champêtre."</p> +garde-champêtre."</p> <p>He shivered. "Three months of it?" he queried piteously.</p> <p>"Our investigations, which we undertake 'to complete the previous -labours of the archæologists,' ought to be thorough," I pointed out.</p> +labours of the archæologists,' ought to be thorough," I pointed out.</p> <p>"Is it not worth our while to suffer a little tedium for such an end? Lift your gaze to the cash that will accrue, Beauregard. Dwell upon the @@ -4850,7 +4816,7 @@ me a trial!"</p> to be in Crete, but he would soon learn it by the newspaper in his pocket, and if I snubbed him he would certainly give me away. He could hold me up to ridicule—I should be the laughing-stock of Paris. It was -a fine situation for me. I, the director of the Théâtre Suprême, was +a fine situation for me. I, the director of the Théâtre Suprême, was compelled to temporise with this provincial mummer!</p> <p>I scrutinised him in encouraging silence, as if mentally casting him @@ -4868,7 +4834,7 @@ earned that.</p> <p>"Walk on a little way with me," I said graciously; "we can talk as we go along. I should have to see you do something before I could consider you, you know; I must be sure that you are capable. Even the gentleman -who plays the servant at the Suprême and hasn't a single word to utter +who plays the servant at the Suprême and hasn't a single word to utter is an experienced comedian. You are not playing any-where in the neighbourhood? you are not in a travelling theatre about here?"</p> @@ -4877,7 +4843,7 @@ because this is where I live."</p> <p>"Rather remote from the dramatic world?" I suggested, smiling; "something of a drawback, is it not?" His simplicity in crediting me -with the notion of recruiting the Suprême from a travelling theatre +with the notion of recruiting the Suprême from a travelling theatre tickled me nearly to death.</p> <p>"A grave drawback, monsieur," he agreed. "But I am not alone—I have a @@ -5002,8 +4968,8 @@ imminent, my clothes stuck to my skin. Curs, as well as criminals, we looked. I rather fancied that our provincial captor was relieved to see what knock-kneed miscreants he had to deal with.</p> -<p>"You bungling idiot!" I gasped. "I am monsieur Panage, of the Théâtre -Suprême; this gentleman is monsieur Beauregard, of the Académie +<p>"You bungling idiot!" I gasped. "I am monsieur Panage, of the Théâtre +Suprême; this gentleman is monsieur Beauregard, of the Académie Francaise. You shall suffer for this outrage!"</p> <p>He shifted his feet slightly. It was the least bit in the world, but @@ -5132,7 +5098,7 @@ spare the time to come here to identify you. Enfin, you will accompany me to the commissaire de police, and you will obtain the evidence in due course."</p> -<p>"Sacré tonnerre!" I screamed. It was the last straw. That strolling +<p>"Sacré tonnerre!" I screamed. It was the last straw. That strolling player declined to "spare the time," that mountebank neglected Me!</p> <p>I saw crimson. I paced the room, raving. "What did he say?" I @@ -5162,7 +5128,7 @@ written 'Monsieur'?"</p> <p>"'I am now convinced that you can act. I hereby engage you, at the trifling salary of two hundred and fifty francs a week, for prominent -parts in my next three productions at the Théâtre Suprême.'"</p> +parts in my next three productions at the Théâtre Suprême.'"</p> <p>The silence was sensational.</p> @@ -5185,7 +5151,7 @@ That jolly little Manesse girl has a rich papa to-day.</p> variety show.</p> <p>A Frenchman, with a very grubby shirt-front, presented to the audience -"Señorita Pilar Naranjo, the famous dancer of Madrid." My companion +"Señorita Pilar Naranjo, the famous dancer of Madrid." My companion started dramatically, and whispered, "I pray you to pardon me—I shall adjourn to the bar till she has done."</p> @@ -5272,7 +5238,7 @@ effort to compose a preliminary phrase.</p> majesty of her deportment proclaimed that it was she. I advanced. I bowed, with all my grace.</p> -<p>"'Señorita,' I said, 'I am a poet, and I adore you. Will you honour me +<p>"'Señorita,' I said, 'I am a poet, and I adore you. Will you honour me by supping with me?'</p> <p>"It was not the overwhelming eloquence that I should have had in @@ -5319,9 +5285,9 @@ inspired in me a devotion profound, epoch-making, and supreme."</p> <p>He paused. From the footlights, the Frenchman of the dirty shirt-front was to be heard in the capacity of interpreter: "Ladies and gentlemen, -Señorita Pilar Naranjo desires me to translate to you her heartfelt +Señorita Pilar Naranjo desires me to translate to you her heartfelt gratitude for the enthusiasm of your applause. If you will graciously -allow her a few moments for a change of costume, Señorita Naranjo will +allow her a few moments for a change of costume, Señorita Naranjo will have the honour of presenting to you her sensational Toreador Dance."</p> <hr class="tb" /> @@ -5334,7 +5300,7 @@ declarations for the interview.</p> <p>"The remaining hours were intolerable. No sooner had the musique 'all opened than I took my seat, but the exasperating entertainment appeared -to me to endure for æons before her turn. The torments, inflicted on my +to me to endure for æons before her turn. The torments, inflicted on my suspense by a pair of cross-talk comedians, cannot be surpassed in hell.</p> <p>"At last I trembled in the cul-de-sac again. At last she came!</p> @@ -5377,7 +5343,7 @@ never been out of France in her life.'</p> by the time I discovered it, she was another's</i>! He holds her still—you hear him now."</p> -<p>The "interpreter" was speaking again: "Señorita Naranjo desires me to +<p>The "interpreter" was speaking again: "Señorita Naranjo desires me to translate——"</p> @@ -5388,7 +5354,7 @@ translate——"</p> <h4>THE GIRL WHO WAS TIRED OF LOVE</h4> -<p>At the Opéra Ball, a boy had danced half the night with a partner whose +<p>At the Opéra Ball, a boy had danced half the night with a partner whose youthful tones were so delicious, whose tenderness was so attractive, that he implored her a hundred times to unmask. "If I do, you'll get up and go away," she gasped at last, fondling his hand. He vowed that it @@ -5570,8 +5536,8 @@ you."</p> <p>"Then, if she is not mad—" panted madame de Val Fleury, "then, if she is not mad——My God, can there be something in it?"</p> -<p>She had been going to a neighbour's for a game of écarté after -dinner, and écarté was a passion with her, but she knew no regrets +<p>She had been going to a neighbour's for a game of écarté after +dinner, and écarté was a passion with her, but she knew no regrets in cancelling the engagement. A book by her favourite novelist, just published, lay to hand, and reading was another of her pet pleasures, but she did not open it, as she sat waiting for the hour to strike. @@ -5669,7 +5635,7 @@ a few friendships that she valued, but——Again, she foresaw herself dazzlingly fair, and caught her breath. Her loveliness would compensate a million-fold.</p> -<p>Her income was derived chiefly from Municipal Bonds and Métro shares. +<p>Her income was derived chiefly from Municipal Bonds and Métro shares. At the bank she had also a substantial sum on deposit. She told monsieur Septfous that she had decided to spend the rest of her life in the country, and she took a draft, payable to bearer, for the full @@ -5738,12 +5704,12 @@ Fleury, or, as she now called herself, Victorine de Beaulieu, was the sensation of Paris that autumn. The consummate toilettes permitted by her wealth lent to her face a beauty even more transcendent than Berthe Cheron's had been. When she drove, people pressed forward on -the sidewalks to regard her. When she entered her box at the Opéra, +the sidewalks to regard her. When she entered her box at the Opéra, everybody in the house to whom the box was visible looked at her as much as at the stage. In salons, faces the most admired before her advent paled in her presence, like candle flames in sunshine. She was paramount and she revelled in the knowledge. Yet the transformation had -its lack. She missed her game of écarté with her erstwhile neighbour. +its lack. She missed her game of écarté with her erstwhile neighbour. She missed the garrulity of familiar friends whom she no longer met. There were hours when, despite the transports afforded by the mirror now, she found time hang heavy on her hands. And the hands, of course, @@ -5774,7 +5740,7 @@ made love to. I am tired of all that."</p> would be wearied by some man's appeal, if she went out, determined her to remain at home. The opportunity to out-shine other women failed to lure her from the fireside, and she sat in her dressing-gown, playing -écarté with her new maid. "It is marvellous what a head for the game +écarté with her new maid. "It is marvellous what a head for the game madame has, seeing she is so young!" exclaimed the maid, awestruck. "I cannot say as much for <i>you</i>," snapped her mistress, mourning that quondam neighbour.</p> @@ -6161,7 +6127,7 @@ when you and the toff got in.</p> <p>This afternoon it chanced that three men, who used to be firm friends, -were all sitting in the Café de la Paix at the same time. They +were all sitting in the Café de la Paix at the same time. They pretended not to notice one another. And to-night my thoughts keep reverting to a pot of pansies, the pot of pansies that was so great a power.</p> @@ -6210,7 +6176,7 @@ Henri can make with a single play!" And, as if fearing that her cousin might misconstrue her plaint, she added emotionally, "Not that I grudge him his good fortune, Heaven knows!"</p> -<p>"I know it, too, chérie," responded Elise, squeezing her hand. +<p>"I know it, too, chérie," responded Elise, squeezing her hand. "Jacques' innings will come. I am very sure it will come. It is atrocious that Henri and I should have all the luck in the meantime."</p> @@ -6345,7 +6311,7 @@ vegetables growing there. When I looked at those verdant young things, so full of flavour and nutriment, and thought of the fate before them—reflected that they were destined to be drowned in hogsheads of water, and served as an unpalatable pulp, the sight of them used -to wring my heart. I overtook Jacques in the Champs Élysées one day, +to wring my heart. I overtook Jacques in the Champs Élysées one day, as I was on my way to call on Henri and Elise, and we strolled along together. I said: "I rather thought you would send me a copy of that story you were speaking of before I went. What paper was it published @@ -6360,7 +6326,7 @@ out other stories in the meantime, why not that one?"</p> <p>"I have not turned out other stories in the meantime," he told me. "I am concentrating my imagination on the pot of pansies."</p> -<p>I stopped and stared at him. "Ah, ça! Are you in earnest? Mon Dieu! It +<p>I stopped and stared at him. "Ah, ça! Are you in earnest? Mon Dieu! It looked very promising, but if you mean to spend the rest of your life trying to write it, the promise will cost you dear."</p> @@ -6392,7 +6358,7 @@ greet me once in a century, it is by chance. How are you, darlings?"</p> <p>"We meant to honour you with a visit now," I said. "As it is, we will go on and see Elise. Come back and see her too."</p> -<p>"Elise has gone to a matinée," said Henri. "You shall take a little +<p>"Elise has gone to a matinée," said Henri. "You shall take a little ta-ta with me, instead. I am on topping terms with myself, and need someone to listen to my boasts. I read my play to Martime this week. All is well. When I finished, tears were in his eyes."</p> @@ -6467,13 +6433,13 @@ Jacques. "I tell you, the atmosphere is superb."</p> Henri. "You have everything to create, except the scene. The scene is good, but——"</p> -<p>We were still discussing the question, sipping vermouth at a café, when +<p>We were still discussing the question, sipping vermouth at a café, when someone exclaimed: "Ah, you! How goes it?" And, looking up, I saw that the cordial hand upon the dramatist's shoulder pertained to no less eminent a person than Martime himself.</p> <p>"Numa!" Henri was delighted; the more so when Martime consented to sit -down at our table and sip an apéritif, too.</p> +down at our table and sip an apéritif, too.</p> <p>"Permettez. Two of my oldest friends—monsieur Camus, of <i>L'Elan</i>; monsieur Rouelle, romancier."</p> @@ -6494,7 +6460,7 @@ point is not uninteresting." Whereupon he launched into a description of the street, and did justice to the pansies, though Jacques did not look as if he thought so.</p> -<p>"C'est très bien, ça," said Martime, with weighty nods. "It is very +<p>"C'est très bien, ça," said Martime, with weighty nods. "It is very fine, that. Let me tell you that you have there a poem." In no more authoritative a tone could the Academy have spoken.</p> @@ -6520,7 +6486,7 @@ speak to her? How comes it that she is there?"</p> <p>And now it was that the famous man was tempted to a fall.</p> -<p>"Tout à fait admirable," he repeated. "But"—he displayed a cautionary +<p>"Tout à fait admirable," he repeated. "But"—he displayed a cautionary palm—"above all, no melodrama! The keynote is simplicity. Simplicity and tenderness. For example, in the squalid room sits a young girl, refined though poor—a sempstress. She dreams always of the sylvan @@ -6816,7 +6782,7 @@ apologise—it is vain. There are insults that apologies cannot abate. A husband who is 'contemptible' to his wife is best apart from her—I can find comprehension elsewhere."</p> -<p>I was having a pleasant day—what with one ménage and the other, I was +<p>I was having a pleasant day—what with one ménage and the other, I was having a pleasant day. There ensued a quarrel the more harrowing from the fact that the recriminations poured from a pair whom I knew to be, at heart, lovers. And as often as I endeavoured to steal out, either @@ -7085,7 +7051,7 @@ have been no further pathetic incident.</p> <p>Floromond and Frisonnette, like foreigners more fashionable, "spent their honeymoon in Paris," for, of course, Frisonnette had to keep -on selling Auréole's hats. Home was reached by a narrow staircase, +on selling Auréole's hats. Home was reached by a narrow staircase, which threatened never to leave off, and after business hours the sweethearts—as ridiculously enchanted with each other as if they had never been married—would exchange confidences and kisses at a little @@ -7132,7 +7098,7 @@ angels might see Floromond and Frisonnette kissing at the attic window.</p> <p>Then one afternoon it happened that a French beauty, hastening along the rue La Fayette with tiny, toppling steps, as if her bust were too heavy for her feet, found herself arrested by a toque on view at -Auréole's—and entering with condescension, was still more charmed +Auréole's—and entering with condescension, was still more charmed by the assistant who attended to her. The chance customer was no one less important than the wife of Finot—Finot the dressmaker, Finot the Famous—and at dinner that night, when they had reached the cheese, she @@ -7167,11 +7133,11 @@ mechanical toys—signified his august approval.</p> <p>Frisonnette went home and described the splendours of the place to Floromond, who congratulated her, with a misgiving that he tried to -stifle. And later on she told him of the dazzling déjeuners that were +stifle. And later on she told him of the dazzling déjeuners that were provided, repasts which she vowed stuck in her throat, because he was not there to share them. And, not least, she sought to picture to him the gowns that she wore and sold. O visions of another world! There -are things for which the vocabulary of the Académie Francaise would be +are things for which the vocabulary of the Académie Francaise would be inadequate. Such clothes looked too celestial to be touched. But she was a woman. Though her head was spinning, as Finot's mirrors reflected her magnificence, though she was admiring herself inimitably, she @@ -7209,7 +7175,7 @@ longing the gorgeous toilettes that graced her in the show-room.</p> cloak, so beautiful that simply to stroke it thrilled her with ecstasy. Only once had she had an opportunity of luxuriating in its folds; under its seductive caress she had promenaded, on the Aubusson carpet, for -the allurement of an américaine, who, after all, had chosen something +the allurement of an américaine, who, after all, had chosen something else. The mannequin used to think that she who possessed it should be the proudest woman in the world, and twice the painter had been wakened to hear her murmuring rhapsodies of it in her sleep.</p> @@ -7225,7 +7191,7 @@ corner mansion in the avenue Van-Dyck.</p> <p>That the fangles and folderols had indeed divided them was more apparent still as time went on—so much so that frequently he passed -the evening at a café, to avoid the heartache of watching her repine. +the evening at a café, to avoid the heartache of watching her repine. But it was really waste of coppers, for he thought of the change in her all the while; and when he lagged up the high staircase, on his return, he was remembering, at every step, the Frisonnette who formerly had @@ -7265,7 +7231,7 @@ for a couple of months or so, a little later on?"</p> <p>"You and one of the other young ladies. Monte Carlo, Vienna, Rome?"</p> <p>"Rome?" ejaculated Frisonnette, who had never dreamed of reaching any -other "Rome" than the one on the Métropolitain Railway.</p> +other "Rome" than the one on the Métropolitain Railway.</p> <p>"Mademoiselle Piganne would contrast most effectively with your tints, I think?" He screwed up his eyes. "Y-e-s, we could hardly evolve @@ -7309,7 +7275,7 @@ quite nice again."</p> <p>"What do you mean?" she asked, paling.</p> <p>"I mean," he sighed, "that after the 'brilliant display,' it is not our -ménage under the tiles that would seem to you idyllic repose. Heaven +ménage under the tiles that would seem to you idyllic repose. Heaven knows it goes against the grain to beg a sacrifice, but if you accept such luxury, I feel that you would never bear our straits together again. Do not deceive yourself, little one; you would be leaving me, @@ -7391,13 +7357,13 @@ and the result of his effort was so execrable that he knew that he was simply wasting good paint.</p> <p>Then, because work was beyond him, and his purse was always slimmer, -he began to make déjeuner do for dinner, too. And not long after that, +he began to make déjeuner do for dinner, too. And not long after that, he was reducing his rations more every day. It was a haggard Floromond who threaded his way among the crowds that massed the pavements when some weeks had passed. The boulevards were gay with booths of toys and trifles now; great branches of holly glowed on the <i>baroques</i> of the flower-vendors at the street corners; and the restaurants, where -throngs would fête the <i>Réveillon,</i> and New Year's Eve, displayed +throngs would fête the <i>Réveillon,</i> and New Year's Eve, displayed advice to merry-makers to book their tables well ahead.</p> <p>"My own rejoicings will be held at home!" said Floromond.</p> @@ -7405,7 +7371,7 @@ advice to merry-makers to book their tables well ahead.</p> <p>And, during the afternoon of New Year's Eve, it was by a stroke of irony that the first comrade who had rapped at the door since Frisonnette's flight came to propose expenditure. "Two places go -begging for the supper at the Café des Beaux Esprits," he explained +begging for the supper at the Café des Beaux Esprits," he explained blithely, "and it struck me that you and your wife might join our party? Quite select, mon vieux. They promise to do one very well, and five francs a cover is to include everything but the wine."</p> @@ -7506,7 +7472,7 @@ Dieu, I have not come home too soon!"</p> <p>"Tut, tut," said Floromond; "are you trying to pose me for a hero of romance? I have been an idle vagabond, that is all. The cat is out of -the bag, though—you have come home, ma Frisonnette adorée, and I have +the bag, though—you have come home, ma Frisonnette adorée, and I have nothing for your welcome but my embrace!" And thinking of the want that lay before her, he broke down.</p> @@ -7564,374 +7530,7 @@ than one and it's never too late to hope. 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