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"Eighteen years," mused Grace, "and Ruth is twenty-two. The years seem to tally with the rest of the story, too. Will you give me Mr. Denton's address and allow me to write to him, Jean?" "Whatever Mamselle Grace wishes shall be hers," averred Jean. "Then I'll write the letter to-morrow. The sooner it is written and sent, the sooner we shall receive an answer to it," declared Grace.
"Don't we always come to see you when we are home from college?" "It is true, Mamselle Grace," returned Jean solemnly. "I am lucky man to have such fren's." "Don't look so sad over it, Jean!" exclaimed Hippy. "Be merry, and gayly dance as I do."
A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was wanting in respect towards the group. "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he added: "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent.
"Guitiote," said Reine, "lay two more places at the table. The horse belonging to these gentlemen has been taken care of, has he not?" "Yes, Mamselle, he is in the stable," replied one of the grooms. "Good! Bernard, to-morrow you will take Fleuriot with you, and go in search of their carriage which has been swamped in the Planche-au-Vacher. That is settled.
The ice is moving out of the strait. "We are strand on this island!" says Mamselle Rosalin. "Oh, what shall we do?" I tell her it is better to be prisoners on Bound Island than on a cake of ice in the strait, for I have tried the cake of ice and know. "We will camp and build a fire in the cove opposite Mackinac," I say. "Maman and the children will see the light and feel sure we are safe."
Its proprietor, summoned from a neighbouring house, recollected, with considerable difficulty and after consultation of a penny pocket-book, that he had certainly let a top-floor room to a young Frenchwoman about a year ago, but he had never caught her name properly, and simply had her noted down as Mamselle.
Maybe de dress won't fit." "'Ha! You don' know me, mamselle, I say. 'I can guess de weight of a caribou to five poun'. She'll be same size la'kin' one inch 'roun' de wais'." "'Poleon Doret, she say, 'you ain' no Franchemans to talk lak'dat. Look here!
The girl raised the lantern above her head in order to scrutinize the two strangers; doubtless their appearance and air of respectability reassured her, for she replied, in a milder voice: "Well, that does not depend on me I am not the mistress here, but come in, all the same Mamselle Reine can not be long now, and she will answer for herself."
Then I feed the dogs, and she walk with me to the water edge, and we drink with our hands. It is my house, when we sit on the fur by the fire. I am so light I want my fiddle. I wish it last like a dream that Mamselle Rosalin and me keep house together on Round Island. You not want to go to heaven when the one you think about all the time stays close by you.
"Did you not tell us, when first we met you, that you were heart-broken over the separation from your wife and children?" she inquired in severe tones. "Yes, of course, mamselle; it was a good way to arouse your sympathy," he admitted with an air of pride. "I needed sympathy at that time, and my only fear was that you would find Clarette, as you threatened to do.
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