The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-09-24
hand, Interrupts our lover.

conduct is very light. Unworthy ofa
French gentleman. A man of honor
does not thus abuse innocence, expert
cnce, naiircie, the embarrassment of :
girl well brought up. TO profit by tho
absence of a father, and ola porte-mon
naie, to offer, brutally, thirty centimes
moreover, visiting-card,- to 8
young person, alone, is very bad &c
tion. Here they are, your six sous
sir. My daughter and | wish to
have nothing in common with YOU"
And the fat gentleman, while hold
ing forth with this volubility, begins
to tumble
Before Agenor, literally stunned, car
utter a single word, 4 new actor enters
upon the scene. 1t is the driver, furi
Gus, brandishing a whip menacingly
well, to be sure, here is custom
er who is careful not to leave a grain
of anything in my carriage. told
you that | could only take you for q
course; you accepted; you even asked
me to hurry; then, having arrived you
spin away, like zebra; you squirm
out Of paying me, like snake, by tell
ing me to wait for you. Not thus.
have but one word; course is a course
nothing more. Pay. Quick, then! nc
pourJoire, if that pinches you, Jour
yeois, but my thirty sous, and faster
Agenor understands nothing of it
But the fat gentleman, who has pre-
cipitately thrust his ten fingers into
all his pockets, and has successfully
brought them out without appreciable
result, turns very pale, then very red
then crimson, then purple. Now he
gets into the green. \ rainbow, wear.
ing a high hat and overcoat, whew!
Comprehending, finally, that these II,
borious researches are useless, NJ Aris-
tide Chapoulot wipes his forehead with
his dyed gloves, which he mistakes for
his handkerchief, and replies ftcbly, in
4 broken voice, to the last and ms st
energetic summing-up OF the driver:
81 have-forgotten-my-mypo porte
monnaie!"
IL understand, | understands re.
piled the driver. "That has been tried
on me before. Don't try that. You
can tell that stuff to the police. With
me it does not bite This is one Gus
toner, to be sure!'
And he started to seize by the arm
the unfortunate NJ. Chapoulot, who,
inert, despairing almost in an apoplexy
was about to give himself up.
But Agenor-a very providence for
the f:,mily-has already taken from his
pocket, the necessary sum, and dis
charged the driver.
"You will permit me?" with an OK
quisite politeness the young man says
to NJ. Chapoulot, who has but strength
to articulatc:
Dear sir, with pleasure. You COM
prehend, twenty-five centimes of pour
boire, no more"
The father of Mile. Charlotte, who
y" yiously could not understand that
one may not always have thirty cent
ines to pay the omnibus, begins to adj
nit that one may, upon occasion, be
very happy to fall upon some one who
will advance thirty-fivc sous to pay a
pitiless driver. Thus, notwithstand.
ing the various, and unusual emotions
to which he has been subjected, it is
with smile almost gracious that he
says to Agenor:
"Monsi,ur, Monsieur Baluchet, | be
lievc? Thirty centimes and one franc
seventy that makes forty-one
sous that l owe you. If you will give
Inc the pleasure of dining with me this
evening, we shall arrange, immediate
ly, this affair. An old merchant, OBJ
jcct to standing debts. Besides, good
accounts make good friends"
A quarter of an hour afterwards
Gertrude put one more chair at the
Chapaulot table. 1t is still there. The
following month, in fine, there was pub!
lished ut the mairic the bans of Mile
Charlotte and NJ. Agenor.
And Papa Chapoulot said to any
one who would listen to him:
"Never borrow, o father of families
1t costs too dearly. |, once in my life
owed iorty-one sous, and | was obliged
in order to pay it, to give my daugh
ter, plus dowry of eighty thousand
francs -H,me Journul
\ little girl who lives in Grafton re,
cpvcd an invitation to 4 party which
a friend was about to give. The invi
tation had been written by the small
hostess. After surveying the note
with delight for 4 few minutes, the re-
cipicnt said:
Papa, | wonder if it is a birthday
partly"