, 1884-07-09
MILE ISALINE.
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girls that you har L. ever see anywhere out
die the Pays de Vaud. II was almost ini-
opss be {, look at her without smi Ing; Pm
sure it va quite impossible fer her to lols at
anyone else a I'll not smile at them. She
wore the r ttiest little Vaudois caps you
sver saw in your life; and she look d 20 CO.
luett!sh In them that YOU must have been
very hari-hear;ed in, d IL you dill not
stra Oh way fall head over ears / I love with
her at first sight. BesiueS, she had been TO
school ut Lausanne, and spoke sue pretty,
delicate, musical French. Now, my & oil
mot -er thought badly Of my French accent
and when I told her l meant to
spend a summer month or two in Switzar.
land, she said 10 me, IL do hope,a Charlie
dear, you will miss no opportunity of CON
versing with the people, All improving your
self in colloquial French a little" 1 an Ger.
taiuly tue most dutiful of IONS, and L sll-
eninly assure you that, whenever l was not
fishing or climbing, 1 missed no opportunity
Whatsoever Of conveising with pretty little
Saline.
mile. Isaline," l said on this particular
afternoon, u shout much like a cup of tea;
can Sara bring me one out here in the gar'
ienf'
Perfectly, monsieur; 1 will bring out the
little table on to the era q plot, said lsaline.
That viii arrange things for you much more
pleasantly"
Not Tor worlds" l said. running in to get
1t myself. But saline had darted into the
louSe before me, and brought it out with her
own white little hands on to the tiny lawn.
Then she went in again, and soon reappeared
with a Jal anese ~tray-bought at Montreux
specially in my honor-and.a set of the fun
niest little old China tea things ever beheld
In a London bric-a-brac cabinet.
Wont you sit and take a cup with me,
m~adeinoisellef' l asked.
NJ fol, monsieur" answered ~Isaline.
blushing again, II have never tasted any eI-
eept as pihisane. But you other English
drink it 50, don't youi l will try it for the
rest; one learns always"
poured her cut a cup and creamed it with
some Of that delicious Vaudois cream mo
cream in the world 80 good as what you get
in tine Pays de Vaud-you see l am All en-
thusiast for my adoptel c~ountry-but that is
anticipating matteGsl, and handed it over to
Ter for her approval. She tasted it with a
little moue. English women don't make the
moue, 30, though l like sticking to my mother
tongue, 1 confess my inability to translate
the word "Br-r+r-r," she said "Do you
English like that STUN Well, one must nc
so~mmodate ones self to it, / suppose" And
to do her Justice, she proceeded to accommo-
date herself to it With such distinguished sue.
coss that she asked me soon for another cup,
and drank it off with. ut even a murmur.
And this N. Clnude. them" l asked; ]he
is a friend OF yonrsf Emf"
"Passably," she answered, coloring slightly.
You see, we have not much society ut Les
Pentes He comes from the normal school
1T Geneva He is instiu ted, a man of ,dI-
cation. We see few sucn here. What would
you hayer' She said it apologetically, as
though she thought she was bound to excuse
herself for having made III. Claudeis &C
quaintance.
ABut you like him very muchl'
Like hint Well, yes; l liked him always
well enough. Bat he is too naughty. He
gives himself airs. To-day he is angry with
me. He as no right to b. angry with me-
"Mademoisell.," I said, "have you ever
read our Shakespeare"
sob, yes, in ENGLISH l have read him /
can real Eng ish well enough, though ]
speak but a l.tGie."
1And you ave read the Tempest"
"gowi Ariel. Ferdinand, Miranda,
Calibanf o., yes. 1t IS beautiful"
well, maze noiselle.H l sa.d, "do You re.
member how Miranda first saw Ferdinandf'
She smiled nnd blushed Rgain-she was
such u little blusher. 81 knoy what you
wound say" she said. @You English are
blunt You talk to young ladies SC
strangely"
wen, 1l 10. lSutlncl II seems 70 mt tuat
you at LIS Pantes are Ike Miranda on the
island. You see nobody and there is nobody
bere 10 see you. You musJnot go an fail in
love, | Ike Miranda. with the very first man
you may happen 10 meet vita, because he
comes from the normal school ut Geneva.
there a 9 plenty OF men ia tue world, believe
ma, best les N. Claude"
"Ah, but Miranda and Ferdinand both
Owed one another, - said Isaline, a. chilly, Land
they were married, and both lived happily
ever after ward" ] saw ut once she was try
ing TO p que me.
allow do you know thatp 1 askel. at
doesn't say so IN the plny. For all l know,
Ferdii aud lost the crown OF Naples through
a revolution, and went and settled down at a
country scho ! at Savoy or somewhere and
took to drinking. and became brutally un
socinble, aud made MiInnda's life n toll and
a burden to her. Al any rate, I'm suro of
enc thing, he wasn't worthy of uer."
What made me go on in this stupid wayi
I'm sure l dol.it know. / certainly didn't
mean TO ma ry lisa Inc mys,lf; " y at
least, not definitely; and yet when you are
sitting down at tea on : rustic garden seat,
with n pretty girl IN a charming white
crimped cap beside you, and you get a chance
OF insinuating that other fellows don't thin {
quite as much Of her as you do, it isn't hui
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sinuatins it
"Bnt you don't know NJ. Claude said Isa
line. practically, "and so yon ciu't tel
whether he l. worthy of me or not"
a am perfectly Ger aim 1 ans weroi, "tha.
le can't be, even though he vera q very
paragon OF virtue, learning, and manly
beauty"
aft monsieur talks in that way said Isa-
line, Il shall have to go back at unce to
mamma"
"Wait a moment" l said, sand / will talk
however you wish me. You know, you
agree 10 give me instruction in CONVEX sa .ional
French. That naturally includes lessons in
conversation with ladies OF exceptional
every possib Q circumstance OF LIE. . . =
So you have read Shakespeare, then And
suy other English booksf7
"oh, many. Scott, and Dickens, aud all,
except Byron. My papa says II youp! lady
must not read Byron. But l have read what
he has said of our lake in a boob of extracts
Il is u great pleasure 10 me TO look down
among the vines aud chestnuts there and 70
think that our lake, which CLEANS so blue
nni beautiful below, is the most FUNGUS in
poetry Of all lRkes. You know Jear-Jacques
says: Non lac est le premier and so it is. .
"Ihen you have read JeAn-Jacques, toofr
@Oh, mon Dieu, no. -; papa says q
young lady must especially not read Jean
Jacques. But l know something about him
so much as IL convenable. Hold here! do
you see that clump of trees down there by
the lake, just above Clarensi That is jules
grove-'de brsquet de julie we cal it. There
isn't a spot along the lake that Is not thus
famous. that hasnct its memories and Its
s~osaciations. 1t is for that tia | could not
Every Smoker should try Little
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