The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-05-06
How Mrs. O'DoWd Learned Italian.

was newly married when | came abroad
for short wedding tour. The world at that
time required newly married people to lay in
a small stock Of continental notions. to as
sist in their connubialty and enable them 10
wear the yoke with the graceful ease CT for
elgners; and so Mrs. OD. and started with
one heart, one passport, and-what's not so
pleasant-one hundred pounds, to comply
with this ordinance. Of course, once over
the border-once in France it was enough.
SO we took up our abode in very unpre-
tending little hotel of Boulogne sur-ner call
ed La Cour de Madrc," where We boarded
tor the moderate sum of eleven francs fifty
centlmes per dlem-the odd fifty being saved
oy my wife not taking the post prandial cup
Of coffee and rum.
There was not much to see at Boulogne,
and we soon saw it. For week or so Mrs.
OD. used to 90 out mutiipd like one Of the
'ultan's five hundred wives protesting that
she'd surely be recognized; but she grew
rut of the delusiOn at last, and discovered
hat our residence at the Cour de Madrid as
etfectually screened US from all remark to all
inquiry as if We had taken up our abode at
the Catatombs.
Now when one has get a large stock Of
any commodity on hand-I dou't care what
it is-there's nothing so provoking as not to
ind market. MIS- OD.'s investment was
baShfulness. She was determined TO he the
most timid, startled modest and blushlng
creature that ever wore orange flowers and
Yet there was not man, woman or child in
the whole town that cared to know whether
the act for which she lett England was a
matrimony or a murder.
Don't you hate this place, Conelius p
she never called me Con in the honeymoon.
Isn't it the duiest, dreariest hole you have
ever been in "
'Not with YOU
Then don't yawn when YOU say so.
abhor it. It's dirty, its vulgar, its dear
No, no, 1t amt DEAR my love; don't say
DEAR
Billiards, perhaps, and filthy c:gars, and
that greenish bitter-annisette, think you
call it-are cheap enough perhaps but these
are all luxuries that can't share in
Hera was the clond NJ hiyoer than = mans
hand that nrpsaosd the frs, connuh;al hurrj-
ca,o married frierd-one Of much suf-
fer;nc-bad told me Of this, saving, Don't
fancy you'll escaos, old fellow: h... do the
way the ministry do about Turk put thp
the evil dav off dip}omatiZe. prrm.se. cajo. e,
81 -. g t.oad, J., ,ut ,o.,o,n.., o,I
.,.,n.,,;.h tt,.a rr,oo,.. roc',;,,o1 o..
,ho nbro.ois l. ona With a ! ..b q. ckIp.s Iib-
,ho, + tro,,tI, Of roo, os r...or1 !, |
said .yor,ya orly r. saw wbere-rotbing
h,. whore 70 and I'll .oka 1nu--uD The
4 Rhine. down the Danube, Egyut, the ca,.-
raots
. L don't want to 20 50 far said she, dryly,
? Italy will do
! This was stunuer. I h0pe1 the imposSi-
bic would have stopped her. but she caught
. at the practicable and toiled me.
r There's one obIpc,ion,' said | musing.
! And what may that be-not money. |
0 topp.'
? Heaven ..torb;d-no. Is the language.
! We Get on here toiefaoI, we'll .or the waiter
( speaks broken English, bat IN Italy, dearest
! English in unknown.
Let Us learn Italian, then. My aunt
! Groves SAID / had rema: Aab.e talent tor
{ languages
4 Sfoaneo lh"aro'} d 'hl>' LOT 'he Sau''
aunt "F''eS hao 'o0cl'S! io' SUN '' Se'
S eE'een huliule0 al" o"u p'u""N "S "e'
hieces fortune ""' "H'c' was - oe""'''""s
] ura up as theF cane" H. 'h"l hel'n7F c'i"'i'
cS-ior nor master were ever ef"'' 10 'ne ''SN
S OF unty'cg II.
J VI course dearest let Us learn l'a''a' )
: ana 'housh' no" c'us" junior 'o"''s''
some oay WIN s'"aS''I"S oI' u ''''','
|. we started 'na' same pi5'I d, "'s'' ''''
: oay a''tF o"'-c''sse'' 'io''' re''' III d '''o"
Y S'ofh'' an" Ee"c"eo ''e iIVh'"e''" "S va!
y worn anu "Fe''"T''-'ooNI"s i" P'F q ever
''a'e'e" Oh al effa''o '' .''SS 40" "e''''''''e
|. III iol penny - 'ei! i'''' P'"','p"S
n out cant hsi? '""'' - "lo's 70 III! ''o'"
s er refer 10 seIi cut another hoh"reo 'oF ''l'