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White Pigeon was thirty or thirty-five, mebbe; she had some gray hairs mixed in with the brown, and at times there was a tinge of melancholy in her laugh and a sort of half-minor key in her voice. I think she had had a Past, but I don't know for sure. Women under thirty seldom know much, unless Fate has been kind and cuffed them thoroughly, so the little peachblow Americaine did not interest me.
In a tier near the ground a man is standing and calling standing head and shoulders above the rest callimg in the Américaine tongue. Another man, big and red, named Joe, and a handsome little Creole in elegant dress and full of laughter, wish to stop him, but the flat-boatmen, ha-ha-ing and cheering, will not suffer it.
Dosson, little as he resembles a sporting character, found it a great resource, on fine afternoons, to drive with a highly scientific hand and from a smart Americaine, in the Bois de Boulogne.
Then he pointed to the flag, and, clearing his throat, said: "You aire an Américaine?" I owned it. "I haf seen the flag I haf been so surprised I haf had to come in." I opened the door wide, and said: "Do," and he did, and almost with tears in his eyes he was very young, and blonde he explained that he was a Canadian. "But," I said, "you are a French Canadian?"
This Madame liked the pretty, sociable Americaine, always smiled when she entered the shop with her husband, counselled her as to the choicest dainties of the day, asked her opinion deferentially as that of a connoisseur, and made her little gifts. Through the cake-shop Milly came to realize the French, as her husband never did.
There is the beautiful young American girl beautiful, but as earnest and good as she is beautiful, and as talented as she is earnest and good. And wedded, be it understood, to her art preferably painting or singing. From New York! Her name must be something prim, yet winsome. Lois will do Lois, la belle Américaine. Then the hero American too. Madly in love with Lois.
Once upon a time an Américaine coveted one of these picturesque houses. She entered the convent and interviewed the business-manager, a veiled nun behind close bars.
The concert ended with an "ouverture festivale sur l'Hymne Américaine, 'The Star Spangled Banner," by Dudley Buck. MacDowell found in Boston a considerable field for his activity as pianist and teacher. He took many private pupils, and he made, during the eight years that he remained there, many public appearances in concert. In composition, these years were the most fruitful of his life.
Allons! monsieur, you vill see ver many pretty girl, avec les yeux tres noir, and ver short ah! ver short vat you call em in Americaine?" "I do not know what you allude to." "Cela! Zis, monsieur," holding out the skirt of his hunting-shirt; "par Dieu! now I have him petticoes; ver short petticoes. Ah! you sall see vat you sall see en un fandango Mexicaine.
I merely volunteered "Américaine." Then the inquiry continued like this. "Live here?" "Evidently." "How long have you lived here?" "Since June, 1914." That seemed to strike him as a very suspicious date, and he stared at me hard for a moment before he went on: "What for?" "Principally because I leased the house." "Why do you remain here in war-time?"
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