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My faith, it is terrible and she has yet no figure, no manner;" and Madame Duburg looked, with an air of gratified pride, at the stiff figures of her own two girls. "Her figure is not a bad one, sister-in-law," Mrs. Barclay said, composedly; "she is taller than Julie who is six months her senior she is as straight as an arrow. Her health is admirable; she has never had a day's illness."
But of that there is no chance. It is we who will invade." Captain Barclay made no reply. "The plums want gathering, papa," Percy said, returning from cutting the lettuces. "It was arranged that our cousins should come over, when they were ripe, and have a regular picking. They have no plums, and Madame Duburg wants them for preserving.
I don't care for girls; they are always thinking about their dress, and one is afraid of touching them, in case you should spoil something. There is nothing jolly about them." The others laughed. "I am sure Milly is jolly enough," Philippe Duburg said. "Yes, Milly is jolly," Percy answered.
Monsieur Duburg had already agreed to purchase the cottage, and adjoining grounds; which he intends for Louis, when he marries. The Barclays were sorry to leave their uncle and cousins, but there was no great grief with reference to the separation from Madame Duburg. General Tempe they parted from with regret. That officer's fighting days were over, for he lost a leg in the battle before Le Mans.
"Louis Duburg," Major Tempe said, "take this paper, with 'Those who seek a traitor will find him here, and fasten it to a tree; so that it may be seen at the point where this path turned from the road." Louis took it, and ran off. In a quarter of an hour, when he returned, he found the company drawn up in readiness to march.
The Barclays' meals, therefore, differed more in name than in reality from those of their neighbors. Louis and Philippe Duburg came in at five o'clock, but brought a message that their sisters would come in with their father and mother, later. Melanie was neither surprised nor disappointed at the non-arrival of her cousins.
Barclay had asked Julie and Justine if they would like to go down to the orchard; but Madame Duburg had so hurriedly answered in their name, in a negative saying that they would stroll round the garden until Melanie returned that Mrs. Barclay had no resource but to ask them, when they passed near the orchard, to call Milly in her name to join them in the garden.
This was answered by the fire of the franc tireurs, who surrounded them. Five fell; and the others, surprised and panic stricken, threw down their arms. They were instantly secured, and the bridge was at once seized. The firing still continued in the village; but in another five minutes it ceased and, shortly afterwards, Louis Duburg ran up with the tidings that the village was taken.
After tea was over, the four boys returned to their work of gathering plums; while Melanie or Milly, as her father called her, to distinguish her from her mother picked up the plums that fell, handed up fresh baskets and received the full ones, and laughed and chattered with her brothers and cousins. While so engaged, Monsieur and Madame Duburg arrived, with their daughters, Julie and Justine.
The idea of telling your daughter that she is to marry a man whom she has never seen as we do in France is, to my mind, simply monstrous. Fortunately, I myself married for love; and I have been happy, ever since. I intend Milly, when the time comes, to do the same thing." Before Madame Duburg had time to answer, the gentlemen joined them, and the conversation turned upon the war.
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