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I have already made you admit that circumstances could alter your poem; don't you now see that fathers are good for something?" "You want to give me a lecture, papa; it is positively l'Ami des Enfants over again." "Poor deceived girl," said her father, sternly; "it is no lecture of mine, I count for nothing in it; indeed, I am only trying to soften the blow."
Suddenly, at the top of the flight, appeared Corinne Pevay, captain of the West Side. "What is the trouble, mes enfants?" she demanded. "Why all the outburst of variegated sounds, Cora? Is it a convention of the Freshman Calliope Society; or merely a discussion of the question: Votes for Women?" Cora had become silent instantly. Nancy was winking back her tears, and would not turn around.
=Backward Children.= Enfants arriérés as the French call them constitute a class by no means seldom met with. They generally attain their bodily development slowly, and the development of their mind is equally tardy.
They were mostly women and children, only a very few old men and young boys left. The poor things were terrified by the Germans and Bismarck, of whom they had made themselves an extraordinary picture. "Monsieur sait que Bismarck tue tous les enfants pour qu'il n'y ait plus de Français."
Where a good man can always earn a good wage, and where he need look upon no man as his paymaster, but just reach his hand out and help himself. Aye, it is a goodly and a proper life. And here I drink to mine old comrades, and the saints be with them! Arouse all together, me, enfants, under pain of my displeasure. To Sir Claude Latour and the White Company!"
Once, indeed, he guides her hand to transcribe in a book the words of her exaltation, the Ave, and the Magnificat, and the Gaude Maria, and the young angels, glad to rouse her for a moment from Her dejection, are eager to hold the inkhorn and to support the book; but the pen almost drops from her hand, and the high cold words have no meaning for her, and her true children are those others, among whom in her rude home, the intolerable honour came to her, with that look of wistful inquiry on their irregular faces which you see in startled animals gipsy children, such as those who, in Apennine villages, still hold out their long brown arms to beg of you, but on Sundays become enfants du choeur, with their thick black hair nicely combed, and fair white linen on their sunburnt throats.
Such storms of applause broke out as set the lustres of the chandelier jingling. Then some murmurs made themselves heard, and the voice of a citizen in a round hat answered from the pit with the hymn of the Marseillaise: Allons, enfants de la patrie.... The voice was drowned by howls, and shouts were raised: "Down with the Terrorists! Death to the Jacobins!"
When les enfants du Don might so easily have taken the Emperor himself in the midst of his army, it was clear that there was nothing for it but to fly as fast as possible along the nearest, familiar road.
Rachel drove, with hands unconscious of the reins, along the road and up the farm lane leading through her own fields. The world swam around her in the mist, but there, still in front of her, lay the illuminated farm, a house of light standing in air. As she neared it, the front door opened and sounds of singing and laughter came out. The "Marseillaise"! Allons, enfants de la patrie!
Under the generic title of 'Les Victimes d'Amour, he made his debut with the following three family-romances: 'Les Amants , Les Epoux , and Les Enfants . About the same period he published a book, 'La Vie Moderne en Angleterre. Malot has written quite a number of novels, of which the greatest is 'Conscience, crowned by the French Academy in 1878.
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