The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
Corner Of Eleventh and I Sis. Northwest.

don't you admit that she is charming, and
that you would be a lucky dog, eh, you
rascal?"
'sPooh, uncle, what enthusiasm! Do you
ordinarily take fire in this manner when peo-
pie sprinkle you from garden hose? or per-
haps it is the wine of this most excellent of
fathers"
Thibaut was about to reply when on turning
the corner of the street they beheld Madame
Filhol, the anxious mother, coming toward
them, and as her brother-in-law had prophe-
sled wondering where they were. Marcel
related the annoying incident, and the uncle
completed the tale by averring that for his
own part he was far from considering it an
noying. And in saying so he was pleased to
wink at his nephew, without consenting to
make an explanation of this mysterious action.
Home they reached and sat down to table.
The bath had developed an appetite in this
old monster; he devoured At dessert, in high
good humer, full of his jokes, his elbows on
the table--for Uncle Thibaut's manners were
really something awful-he would talk of
nothing but the Lemadies, and put his sister
in-law through regular cross-examination
concerning them. But Madame Filhol could
tell him nothing AT Chaton one sees nothing
of one's neighbors, and nobody paid visits.
She remembered having seen the girl in the
now famous garden once or twice out walking
with her mother or her maid but that was ALL
Marcel, with an irritated air, preserved
severe silence, and the uncle changed the con-
versation. But the young man presently got
up to look for cigars, and then came the
uncle's chance. Quickly and in short, rapid
sentences he explained his idea. 'Adorable
young girl-parents excellent people-house
first class, first class-wouldn't act blindly, of
course-must ask information-but he would
attend to all that-but if, as indeed he was
certain beforehand Reenter the nephew
with the cigars. Thibaut broke off short and
stuck his fat finger to his mouth, jim sign of
warning. Almost at the same moment
formidable sneeze made every glass in the hall
ring again.
calmness, s'you are taking coldo
81 shouldn't won-whatchou ~ A second
sneeze cut the word in two, and Thibaut,
plunging his face into his handkerchief,
strangled therein, one after the other, two
more nasal detonations. But his good humor
was no whit lessened; he continued to joke,
smoking and sneeZing together. When the
servant from the Lemadie mansion brought
him his own clothes he thrust his hand in his
pocket and pulled out a whole louis. 'sThere,
my good girl" said he, stake that for your
pains. And give my compliments to your
master and mistress-mind you don't forget,
now."
The next week, in company with his nephew,
he went to take the train. AS they walked
past the Lemadie grounds Thibaut suddenly
stopped and with firm hand rang the bell
At an impatient movement from Marcel he
turned toward that young man and said: ''If
this bores you, my dear boy you can walk on,
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