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At this moment a footman entered, and presented Mrs. Holt with some mail on a silver tray. "The Vicomte de Toqueville is coming this afternoon, Joshua," she announced, reading rapidly from a sheet on which was visible a large crown. "He landed in New York last week, and writes to know if I could have him." "Another of mother's menagerie," remarked Robert.
"You're no fool, my dear, and it goes without saying that you-do realize it in the most innocent way, of course. But you have had no experience in life. Mind you, I don't say that the Vicomte de Toqueville isn't very much of a gentleman, but the French ideas about the relations of young men and young women are quite different and, I regret to say, less innocent than ours.
"I was about to tell Monsieur de Toqueville," put in Honora, wickedly, "that he must see your Institution as soon as possible, and the work your girls are doing." "Madame," said the Vicomte, after a scarcely perceptible pause, "I await my opportunity and your kindness." "I will take you to-morrow," said Mrs. Holt. At this instant a sound closely resembling a sneeze caused them to turn. Mr.
Holt rattled her newspaper a little louder than usual, arose majestically, and addressed Mrs. Joshua. "Annie, perhaps you will play for us," she said, as she crossed the room, and added to Honora: "I had no idea you spoke French so well, my dear. What have you and Monsieur de Toqueville been talking about?"
Holt rattled her newspaper a little louder than usual, arose majestically, and addressed Mrs. Joshua. "Annie, perhaps you will play for us," she said, as she crossed the room, and added to Honora: "I had no idea you spoke French so well, my dear. What have you and Monsieur de Toqueville been talking about?"
He was trying to read, but every once in a while would lay down his book and gaze protractedly at the house, stroking his mustache. The low song of the bees around the shrubbery vied with Mr. Holt's slow reading. On the whole, the situation delighted Honora, who bit her lip to refrain from smiling at M. de Toqueville.
Holt, at the far end of the room under the lamp, regarded Honora from time to time over the edge of the evening newspaper. In his capacity as a student of American manners, an unsuspected if scattered knowledge on Honora's part of that portion of French literature included between Theophile Gautier and Gyp at once dumfounded and delighted the Vicomte de Toqueville.
DuBois, W.E.B. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton. Atlanta University Publications, The Negro Common School. The Negro Church. and Dill, A.G. The College-Bred Negro American. The Negro American Artisan. De Toqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel De. Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. Four volumes.
When de Toqueville wrote upon Democracy in America, he made the Negro problem a part of the history of civilization, and it has continued to increase in importance, as in difficulty, down to the present day. But that it should be other than a problem for the whites had not been thought of.
And with such an accent!" "I have studied it all my life, Vicomte," she said, modestly, "and I had the honour to be born in your country. I have always wished to see it again." Monsieur de Toqueville ventured the fervent hope that her wish might soon be gratified, but not before he returned to France.
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