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"I beg your pardon, Miss Eschelle," he said, after a second, "I hardly know which to admire most, the beauty, or the wit, or the innocence of the American women." "There is nothing so confusing, though, as the country innocence," the girl said, with the most natural air; "it never knows where to stop." "You are too absurd, Carmen," her mother interposed; "as if the town girl did!"
"I blushed for you. I almost felt ashamed, after all the president said, that you had given so little." "You seem, Miss Eschelle," remarked Mr. Ponsonby, "to be enthusiastic about the education and elevation of the colored people." "Yes, I am; I quite share Mr. Henderson's feeling about it. I'm for the elevation of everything."
At this there was a great clapping of hands. It was one thing to be free to lead a life of single self-culture, and quite another to be compelled to lead a single fife without self-culture. The address was a great success, and much enthusiasm spread abroad for the cause of the unmarried women of India. In the audience were Mrs. Eschelle and her daughter.
Lyon?" "He has come into his title. He is the Earl of Chisholm." "Dear me, how stupid in us not to have taken a sense of that! And the Eschelles do you know anything of the Eschelles?" "Yes; they are at their house in Newport." "Do you think there was anything between Miss Eschelle and Mr. Lyon? I saw her afterwards several times." "Not that I ever heard.
But he renewed his acquaintance with Miss Eschelle, and it was the prattle of this ingenuous creature that made him more heavy-hearted than anything else. "How nice it is of you, Mr. Lyon may I call you so, to bring back the old relations? to come here and revive the memory of the dear old days when we were all innocent and happy!
"Yes Miss Eschelle." "I don't know them. We used to hear of them in Naples, Venice, various places; they were in Europe some time; I believe. She was said to be very entertaining and enterprising." "Well, I suppose they have seen something of the world. The other lady was her mother. And the man with us that might interest you more, Mrs. Laflamme, was Mr. Lyon, who will be the Earl of Chisholm."
At first there had been some reluctance about recognizing the Eschelles fully, and there were still houses that exhibited a certain reserve towards them, but the example of going to this house set by the legations, the members of which enjoyed a chat with Miss Eschelle in the freedom of their own tongues and the freedom of her tongue, went far to break down this barrier.
"What more could I do for Miss Eschelle than to leave her in such company?" "I beg your pardon," said Lyon. "Miss Eschelle must believe that I thoroughly appreciate Mr. Henderson's self-sacrifice. If I occasionally looked over where he was, I assure you it was in pity." "You are both altogether too self-sacrificing," the beauty replied, turning to Henderson a look that was sweetly forgiving.
"There is a capital chance for you," said Henderson; "the university wants some scholarships." "And I've half a mind to found one the Eschelle Scholarship of Washing and Clear-starching. You ought to have seen my clothes that came back to the car. Probably they were not done by your students.
Lyon had been in Washington for a week, and would return there later on. "We had a claim on him," said Mrs. Eschelle, "for his kindness to us in London, and we are trying to convince him that New York is the real capital." "Unfortunately," added Miss Eschelle, looking up in Mr. Lyon's face, "he visited Brandon first, and you seem to have bewitched him with your simple country ways.
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