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I met Truinet and his father regularly at supper time in the Taverne Anglaise, to which I used to make my way unobserved through the streets at dusk. One day, on opening one of the papers there I read the news of the death of Count Pourtales.
Did I mention food? Ah-h-h, the night romance of Parisian nutriment! Parisian, said I. Not the low hybrid dishes of the bevy of British-American hotels that surround the Place Vendôme and march up the Rue de Castiglione or of such nondescripts as the Tavernes Royale and Anglaise but Parisian. For instance, my good man, caneton
"Mercy, how you chatter about 'marrying'!" the girl laughed. "C'est la maladie anglaise you've all got it on the brain." "Why I put it that way to please you," he explained. "You complained to me last year precisely that this was not what seemed generally wanted." "Oh last year!" she made nothing of that. Then differently, "Yes, it's very tiresome!" she conceded.
William Forster, and a little volume on Ruskin called 'L'Esthetique Anglaise', which was published in the 'Bibliotheque de Philosophie Contemporaine'.* Shortly before the arrival of Mr. and Mrs.
He speaks French perfectly and is an excellent driver. Father has tried to persuade him to come to England, but he hates London he was telling me the other day that he hadn't been there for ten years." That disposed of the resemblance, thought Lydia, and yet she could remember his voice, she thought, and when they alighted on the Promenade des Anglaise she spoke to him.
When, one day, the old concierge, bemedalled from the war of 1870, appeared to her in the packing-room, with the announcement that a dame anglaise desired to speak to her, she was at first bewildered. She knew no English ladies had never met one in her life. It took a second or two for the thought to flash that the visit might concern Doggie. Then came conviction.
The dinner was exceedingly choice; there was nothing coarse or vulgar in the dishes no great heavy joints swimming in thin gravy a la Anglaise; no tureens of unpalatable sauce; no clumsy decanters filled with burning sherry or drowsy port.
She had been a great success at the dinner they had given last week. No doubt she had exaggerated her success, but old Dedyier, who had been there too, had said that every one was talking of la belle et la spirituelle anglaise. The girls sat watching the carriage stationed at the bottom of the hill. The conversation paused, a sound of wheels was heard, and a fly was seen approaching.
My cousin doesn't give me a sou of the money; but I make bold, nevertheless, to say that my trouble is remunerated. But I am well, very well, with the proprietors of the two other pairs. One of them is a little Anglaise, of about twenty a little figure de keepsake; the most adorable miss that you ever, or at least that I ever beheld.
Even here, however, I could not but think of 'Caledonia stern and wild, for there stood a real Carron 'three-leggit pat, to which my very heart warmed. I was asked to sit down; and soon the news spread that une Anglaise was to be seen at Mère Talbot's, and people glanced by the window, peeped in at the door, and came to speak upon one pretence or other, as if it was not an everyday sight.
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