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"I will talk in ze American. How you came with ziss button yess? Who have sent you?" To Tom's surprise he spoke English better than either Florette or her brother, and the boys were infinitely grateful and relieved to hear their own language spoken in this remote place. "We are Americans," said Tom. "We escaped from the prison camp across the Alsace border, and we're on our way to the frontier.
Florette made it warm and cozy even when there was no heat in the radiator. She had all sorts of clever home-making tricks. She toasted marshmallows over the gas jet; she spread a shawl on the trunk; or she surprised Freddy by pinning pictures out of the funny page on the wall. She could make the nicest tea on a little alcohol stove she carried in her trunk.
That very evening Florette became his betrothed bride, and the following Tuesday his wife. The wedding was celebrated in the midst of the turmoil of the fair. Strolling players, jugglers and buffoons were the witnesses, and there was no lack of music and tinsel.
While Adam was standing behind the anvil, she sat among the flowers in the bow-window, and the watchmen now looked higher up than the forge, the worthy magistrates no longer cast unfriendly glances at the smith's house, for Florette grew more and more beautiful in the quiet life she now enjoyed, and many a neighboring noble brought his horse to Adam to be shod, merely to look into the eyes of the artisan's beautiful wife.
Peering within by the light of a match, they saw the interior of what appeared to be a mammoth hogshead from which emanated a stale, but pungent odor. It was, perhaps, seven feet in depth and the same in diameter and the bottom was covered with straw. "It is ze vat ze wine vat," whispered Florette, amused at their surprise. "Here we keep ze wine zat will cost so much. But no more.
In the afternoons she often went with her child outside the gate, and then always chose the road leading to the count's castle. There was no lack of careful friends, who warned Adam, but he answered them angrily, so they learned to be silent. Florette had now grown gay again, and sometimes sang like a joyous bird.
I knew her when she was so high, and it was I who gave her her first part, wasn't it, Lucy? 'Yes. Don't you remember, Dick, the first night I played Florette in The Brigands? Wasn't I in a fright? I never should have ventured on the stage if you hadn't pushed me on from the wings. Kate thought she had never seen anyone look so nice or heard anyone speak so sweetly.
"When she comin' to get me, Bert?" the child asked confidently. "Why why, Freddy now you " Bert could only flounder and look dismayed. "She ain't goin' off an' leave me!" wailed the child. "Now, lissen! Say, wait a minute! Lissen!" "But, Bert! Bert! She " "Say, don't you wanna help Florette, now she's got this gran' bookin' an' all?" "Sure I do, Bert.
We crawled along the fence. There ain't any tracks. I looked out for that." Pausing in suspense, yet encouraged by their expectant silence, he spoke to some one behind him in the bushes and there emerged a young fellow quite as ragged as himself. "It's all right," said Tom confidently, and apparently in great relief. "It's them." "You must come inside ze house," whispered Florette fearfully.
A little white dog, exactly like the one Florette had possessed in the smithy, was also procured, and when in the evening the warm summer air floated into the open windows, and Ulrich sat alone with Florette, recalling memories of the past, or making plans for the future, it seemed as if a new spring had come to his soul. The citizens' distress did not trouble him.
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