The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-10
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most adorable old lady in the world,
grandmother, with fiuttering little curls
and the laughing eyes Of child, has
but one fault, and that so grave one
that Won would hardly believe it.
Dainty and pretty as she is, and grande
dame TO the tips of her taper fingers,
she punctuates her most ordinary con-
yersation with the strangcst OF oaths.
At the slightest provocation. or ON no
provocation at all, she will come out
with 1.-THE deucep' or 1.-THE devill" or
even "Damnp' that shocks every one
who hears her. "It's an old habit OF
mine" she explains. land cling 10 IL
because it is an old one And then, she |
adds. with gay smile, sit saved me
once from the greatest peril woman
can run"
And here is the story as the marquise
tells it:
sold though / am, am not very
serious person; but. as a little glri-ah,
how long ago that was, how long ago'
i was the greatest madcap that ever
got out of breath chasing butterflies, or
tore her gown and left her hair ribbons
ON the hawthorn trees, though that did
not prevent me--egad! would You be-
lieve it, at 14!-from being very much
interested even then in the handsome
hussar gold laced, embroidered and be.
, dizened, who adorned the front pages OF
the romances of that day.
NATURALLY my friends were hardly
, less feather Drained than /. You would
{ have to search long to find dovecot
more full of turbulent chatter and
. laughter and flights of song than the
I Convent of the Sacred Heart, where l
Y took nv yows-never to be nun.
/ "It was in the evening that we used
@ TO play our greatest pranks. We had
l. discovered way to slip out of the dor
= mitory without waking up the sister
: who was supposed to guard over us. AS
/. soon as she was asleep, we would creep
down stairs into the great dark garden,
"a carving with Us tablets of chocolate,
= coffee pot, and an alcohol lamp, and,
d climbing up to favorite perch high IN
an old oak tree, we would make choco-
late and drink it triumphantly in the
darkness
N ssIn the town where this convent was,
c. there was also garrison. The walls OF
k our garden were very high, and we never
n SO much as set eyes on a uniform; but
id walls that prevent seeing, do not pre-
I'd vent hearing. The officers and common
to soldiers-naturally attracted by th'
70 presence Of so many girls, l suppose
of used to stroll along on the other side O
to our wall in the evenings, chattering 70
Nv pether. and we girls used to listen. w
ID. could hear them so we'll! They woul
rot describe what they had done in battle
nff or what they would do in case Their
of should be a war, and when they got eS
ale cited, they used to talk in the most blood
ia thirsty way. 1t was terrifying to hea
,ly them. but so fascinating! And wha
an formidable oaths they used! We coul
ed remember few of them.
M Zone day, as we were walking e
oether in one Of the paths, Eveline 9
he Sabran exclaimed, by thunder, girl
nat this is devilish fine evening?
ale at was revelation! From that TN
no forth. the entire convent, inspired [
, to her example, began to pepper their col
i'm versation with oaths that would ha'
ew done credit to Napoleonic veterans. Al
the we did not content ourselves with u
,ter garrison explosives overheard across u
ris- wall. We recalled peasant profanity Y
! of had heard years before, and hunt'
Int through romances to find the oaths
the fine gentlemen, roisterers, and servil
be- maids. 1t was not long before we n
bett acquired a special and remarkable eru'
por- ton in that line.
me. Gas YOU may imagine, it was not
re- the classes, before the pious ears
,per the sisters, that we aired our new
,ded complishment In the daytime
too swore only before the abbess, who "
son. deaf as post. But as soon as me
came-oh, we did not think OF chocol;
any more, YOU may be sure-we met
the lawn under the big oak and mac
Jew. GRAND time. Deuce take itV Jane
ssscs Seaux would begin. would foil
n as with by thunder, blast your eyes,! q
lless the Others would chorus Devil ny "
upa- with met 'Damme, sir! BY r LAD
With .Ten hundred thousand devils! 'dr'
hose and canister!' Thunder and lightnin
, ap. ,Confound it, To see us strutting alb
/ ex- with our hands ON our hips or twlrl
ogo" imaginary mustaches, with our III
road voices coming from the bottoms OF
oney boots. YOU would think we were m
o ar terrible than a regiment OF dragons
writ AS she said this, the marquise br
the into n peal of merry laughter, and l
ainst Eating the childish uproar OF the
One cocious blasphemers, the gentle old Il
allest swore delightedly.
, the ut must have been an anus
dozen SCENE. we said laughing, but
lend don't see the danger it saved you froi
sim "Devil take you, my dears, she
ment, Allied. chow impatient you are!
| that checking her laughter, she contm
what her story:
,ay so "After the convent comes marriaE
orally after the mother superior, superio
rs for another kind M. dc Lionne was
,is he Sonted 10 me-a fine looking army II
latter. I thought Immediately OF the nuss'
'orrles romance He could talk the part
tier to Too And. POUNDS. why shouldn
nav marry him? Thirty-fve years OF
erious hut much younger in spirit OF pr
ari'ies courage and unquestioned nonor
them fact. how shall say it-he please'
francs yerv much. Only one thing KEPT
age on from saying Yes at once MOVIES
have already being written at that TIM
ippin- ~ "a sop,e-far too maryland
had put lot of absurd ideas mt
hoad II were to give myself 10
y from Forever. | must know his mt
Ia" THONG nts. his past. above ALL
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