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Villiers de L'Isle Adam, who had once been Ninon's lover, answered the reproaches levelled against him for having accepted too largely of her hospitality with, "Que de bruit pour quelques cotelettes!" and his transgressions were forgiven him for the sake of the mot which seemed to summarise the moral endeavour and difficulties of the entire quarter.

Every way they are suit' to each other and we think if that poor old rue Royale con-tinue to run down, that will even be good to join those two businezz' together. And bisside', sinze a li'l' shaver Dubroca he ain't never love nobody else, only Mélanie. "But also De l'Isle, like Dubroca, he was always pretty glad of every egscuse to drop in there at Mme. Alexandre and pass word with Mélanie.

But if that manuscript will join well with those other two or three, or four, if we find so many or if it will rather disjoint them 'tis that we must decide; is it not, M. De l'Isle?" "Yes, and tha'z easy. That story is going to assimilate those other' to a perfegtion! For several reason'. Firz', like those other', 'tis not figtion; 'tis true.

At the treaty of the Pyrenees, which Cardinal Mazarin and Don Louis de Haro concluded, 'dans l'Isle des Faisans', the latter carried some very important points by his constant and cool perseverance. The Cardinal had all the Italian vivacity and impatience; Don Louis all the Spanish phlegm and tenaciousness.

"Ah ah, yes; 'Two aviateur' riceiving from General Joffre' my God! De l'Isle my God! madame," Scipion pounded his breast with the paper "they are yo' son and mine!" The company rushed to his elbows. "My faith! Castanado, there are their name'! and 'For destrugtion of their eighteenth enemy aeroplane, under circumstance' calling for exceptional coolnezz and intrepid-ity!"

"Tha'z too wide?" she inquired. "It isn't long enough to make a book. To do that would take oh seven times as much." "Ah!" Madame's voice grew in sweetness as it rose: "So much the better! So much the more room for those advertisement'! and picture'!" "And portrait of mademoiselle!" said Mme. Alexandre, and Mme. De l'Isle smiled assent.

Chezter, M. De l'Isle he's also precizely in the mi'l' of a moze overwhelming story of his own " "Hiztorical!" the aunts broke in. "Well-known! abbout old house! in the vieux carré!" "Like that circ'" the aunts fell into tears of laughter.

I'll be glad to go." They went. Through that "recommend'" of Chester, got by Thorndyke-Smith for the law firm, and by him shown to M. De l'Isle, the coterie knew that the pretty lady whom they welcomed in Castanado's little parlor was of a family line from which had come three State governors, one of whom had been also his State's chief justice.

There was nothing to do on either side, the four agreed, but to wait the turn of events. The two gray robes and white bonnets had but just got away when the bell rang again and Mlle. Yvonne let in Mme. De l'Isle and Mrs. Chester. But these calls were in mid-afternoon. The evening previous "Show Mr. Chester to three-thirty-three," the hotel clerk had said, and presently Mrs.

The Sower, the second painting of the subject, painted in 1850, and exhibited in the Salon of 1850-51. It is now in the Vanderbilt collection, New York. A pencil sketch of the Sower is in the collection of Millet's drawings, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Gleaners, a painting first exhibited at the Salon of 1867. It was sold to M. Binder of l'Isle Adam for 2000 francs.