The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-13

he read that teitf1le little aoore4$, ana thought to himself of the sort of reception Mademoiselle Eulalie Leruth (whas charming nameD } was likely to obtain at the hands of his ingenious young eountfywoman. Poor little thing, it wss quite clear that she was going to bs .
 French governess in England, and that this was her first venture beyond the
 stormy channels- Che sea was actually
 at that moment like sheet of glass but
 in a eomPassionase frame of mind one
 always makes the worst. mentally, of all
 the barriers of separation which divide
 the poer exile from his or her beloved
 fatheIland.) She was % pssry and nerv-
 ous and shrinking. too when Hugh's
 eyes happened to meet hsss, she blushed
 a bright red immediately, with she naive,
 instinctive modesty of . hien-elevee
 French young lady. Hugh wls chival-
 rous, tender hearted sort of fellow, and
 he blushed in return (thoueh not visibly
 to the naked eye) to think of the way that
 delicate. dainty, round-faced little Nor
 man girl would be harried and worried
 half out of her life by his rough young
 fellow-citizenesses. How the young ladies
 of Weston and the neighborhood (daugh-
 ters of gentlemen only, as Miss Spuner's
 advertisement duly announced in the
 Ga-ene and Coxyier) would wear the
 very heart out of the poor small French
 woman. How they would laugh at her
 pretty broken attempts to fit her southern
 tongue to our harsh Teutonic pronuncia-
 tion how they would grumble and mur-
 mur audibly to one another about the
 disagreeable ways of that horrid nasty
 maddamszell. Looking with prophetic eye into the immediate future, Hugh
 Portledown felt so thoroughly sorry for the poor little thing that he was half in clined, then and there, to go up to her and say in fatherly fashion (young men of twenty-seven are always so fa:herly to girls of eighteen), My dear lady," or rather, Madame, allow me to beg of you not to submit yourself to the treatment you are sure to experience from the un- tutored young savages of the Somerset shire marshes" However, his courage tailed him on this count, and he con- tented himself with exercising a fatherly supervision over Mademoiselle Eulalie from afar.
 Presently his unsuspecting protegee, seeing Hugh's eyes bent closely upon her beyond what was convenable, stepped to the top of the companion ladder, and be- gan an intellectual attempt at conversa-, tion with the fat stewardess. The stew ardess, of course, having only been en- gagged for twenty-two years in visiting French ports, coaldn't speak a single word of their outlandish furren lingo and Mademoiselle Eulalie was on the point oi giving up the endeavor in despair when Hugh, raising his hat with courtesy that was more than English Eulalie thought), to act as interpreter. "Mad- emoiselle will pardon me" he said, ad- vancing toward her politely, but she is unable to make herself understood to my compatriot, fear. My compatriots gen. erally, one must confess, mademoiselle, do not speak foreign languages with ease or fluency. Mademoiselle, on her part, does not speak English, it seems to me will she permit me to explain to the stew ardess what it is that she required?"
 Mademoiselle Leruth blushed more violently. Had not that dear grand papa solemnly adjured her that very when he consigned her tremb- ling to the diligence from Gruchy.les Greville for Cherbourg, that on no ac. count was she to hold communications with any monsieur whatever, and least of all with monsieur Anglais, until she had reached in safety the hospitable roof of Mees Spootare, Wessonne superre Mare .-" for those English, look you, Eulalie, are the most terrible dragons that one can imagine" And now, at the exact outset of her journey, had not one of these aggressive and dangerous beings positively attacked her under the guise of a polite enquiry? Mile. Leruth blushed a third time to merely think of it. And yet, though his accent was, she acknowl- edged, just triae hard and Britannic, .his terrible Rriton certainly spoke her language with ease and readi- l ness. He seemed anxious to assist her. | Could that dear grandpapa be wrong | after all. Was it absolutely certain that | every monsieur Anglais was a complete | ogre, or might it be possible that some | lev among them were really polite and l attentivee In any case, Mile. Eulalie | couldn't we'll turn away without even thanking him; so she said timidly, with | 2 little courtesy, |" thank you, monsieur, but it was really DO matter. merely addressed myself te the s,ewardess by way of society and conversation. Iueed | not trouble you to interpret for me-"
 Hugh saw from her manner that she | meant these words as dismissal, an he | accepted them as such so he merely raised his hat again (' exactly like a | Frenchman," thought Eulalie) and retired | aft, jus, saying as he did so, eff mad emoiselle should have any need of my a.- 'istAnoe as Interpreter hereafter, shall | be happy to afford it." And then he | ssIolied away earelessly, leaving his bag | safely ensconced in the comfortable | corner.
 Presently the Paris train arrived, and l here was a great noise of passengers | coming on board with heavy boxes and | packages. In few minutes | all the seats on deck were fully occupied, | md Hugh congratulated himself upon | having secured beforehand the very bess | place on the entire steamer. The waru- ng bells rang, the captain shouted wildly |