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"In 1747," says Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his "Confessions," "we went to spend the autumn in Tou- raine, at the Chateau, of Chenonceaux, a royal resi- dence upon the Cher, built by Henry II. for Diana of Poitiers, whose initials are still to be seen there, and now in possession of M. Dupin, the farmer-general.
"I should not at all mind a donkey-carriage for Tou Tou, but I shall not insist upon that." He is smiling broadly now. The shade has fled away, and only sunshine remains. "And what for yourself? you seem to have forgotten yourself!" "For myself!" I echo, in surprise, "I have been telling you you cannot have been listening all these things are for myself." Again he has turned his face half away.
"Bobby!" cries Tou Tou, in a high key of indignation at this monstrously palpable instance of unveracity, and nearly capsizing, as she speaks, into a rabbit-hole, which, in her backward progress we are crossing the park she has not perceived. "Well," replies Bobby, candidly, "that last yarn may not be quite a fact, I own that; but I appeal to you, Barbara, is not it true i' the main?
It is making me drowsy. Ten minutes more, and I shall be asleep in the sun, with my head down-dropped on the window-sill. I get up, and, putting on my out-door garments, stray out into the sun, leaving Barbara her pretty forehead puckered with ineffectual wrath, and Tou Tou blurred with grimy tears, to their death-struggle with the restive verb "to love."
"They are better than ours at the church." "Do you think so, my lady?" A pause. Everybody is choosing partners. Tou Tou, grinning from ear to ear, is bidding a bashful button-boy to the merry dance. Father do my eyes deceive me? father himself is leading out the housekeeper. Evidently he is saying something dignifiedly humorous to her, for she is laughing.
I must explain that these three curtains were sacred, too. They were embroidered to represent five hundred Buddhist deities, on old gold satin, and had been used by Emperor Tou Kwang. Her Majesty believed that by hanging these curtains at her door they would guard against evil spirits entering her room.
So giés yé té plis noir passé la nouitte, So dé la lev' plis doux passe la quitte! Tou' mo la vie, zamein mo oir Ein n' amourèse zoli comme ça! Mo' blié manzé mo' blié boir' Mo' blié tout dipi ç' temps-l
A Frenchman might well hold up his hands in astonished horror at the insane prolificness the foolhardy fertility of British householders. We come very improbably close together, except Tou Tou, who was an after-thought.
I shall take her straight home, as if I was not ashamed of her, and we will have a dance, and make a clean sweep of our own cake." "Nancy!" cries Tou Tou, innocently, joining in the conversation for the first time, "did any one take him for your grandfather, as the Brat said they would?"
"Yes, have not I?" say I, triumphantly, "more than any of them, except Tou Tou ." Then, not quite satisfied with the impression our late talk has left upon me: "General!" say I, lowering my face and reddening, "I hope you do not think that I am quite a baby because I like childish things gathering mushrooms running about with the boys talking to Jacky.
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