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jealousy in the cathedrals and were
known to the chapters and to the royal
family alone. Having made many
powerful friends during her long and
patient researches in Spain, and being
a member of the Spanish academy,
Nine. Dieulafoy recently obtained a
permission never before granted, to
study and even to photograph these
priceless treasures of painting, sculp-
ture and goldsmith's work preserved
in the cathedrals of Toledo, Cadiz, Sc
vile and Granada. Nine Dieulafoy is
now engaged in writing four books, one
on each of the towns named
Accustomed as she is to hardship
and privation when on her explora-
lions, Nine. Dieuiafoy leads life al
most as Spartan when at home. Her
residence in the Rue Ghardin is one of
the finest and most luxuriouSly fur
nished in Paris: but most of her time
is passed in a room on the fourth floor
at the rear, far from the noise Of the
street, overlooking the gardens of the
Trocadero. Books covering the walls
from floor to ceilings; a few rugs, a
chair or two; aslarge desk to the left,
and smaller one to the right; that is
all. The large. desk is Prof. Dieula-
toys, the small one is his wife's. And
here the two sit writing for eight hours
each day.
I'VE begin at 6 o'clock every morn
ing, winter and summer, for | have
found that no time is SO favorable for
writing as the early morning." said
Nine. Dieulafoy to me. and we write
without one moment ssrest until IL. On
rising, my husband and I both take
cup of chocolate, and after that no one
must interrupt US until we go down
for our breakfast at II. No letter. no
message or telegram, however urgent,
is brought to US, the servants are even
ordered not to come near our story.
What is perhaps more remarkable
than the outside silence which sur
rounds us is the silence which we OBJ
serve towards one another. Undls-s
turbed thought is the one guarantee of
good literary work, and although we
are often writing in collaboration, we
never exchange word during these
five hours. The scratching of his pen
and of mine is all that breaks the still
ness.
Prom II till / p. m. we breakfast,
read our letters and talk; then to work
again until or o'clock. After that
we do no more work, going out to see
our friends, driving or walking or
reading at the Bibliotheque Nationals.
Such is our life, regular and mo-
notonous almost as that in monas-
terry. never varying by as much as
quarter of an hour. Perfect system is,
in my opinion, the greatest necessity
of work of any description
From her dress it might be imagined
that Mime. Dieulafoy has advanced
ideas in feminism. Yet she clings to
old school notions that womans cher
superiority resides precisely in the al
legged inferiority of her home position.
When the writer's, Paul and Victor
Marguerite, opened a campaign In ia
vor of divorce by the consent of either
party, which would make marriage
scarcely even a formality, Nine. Dieu-
,lafoy bravely took up the cudgels, not
against woman's rights, but. as she
considered, for them. You claim that
women are the slaves of marriage, and
that, they would profit by this new ar
rangement, she said. ON the con-
trary, woman alone would lose by 1t.
Ny duty in life. is. aseertaining and re-
porting facts, and have never sus-
tanned a thesis. But this one take up
now, and shall fight for with all my
might that is, that the home tie is too
frail already, that there is too mucn
undfsciplined love in the world, and
that marriage, the most sacred OF all
institutions, shall not be transformed
into farce" And 1t was largely due
to Nine. Dieulafoy's energetic OPPOSE
ton that the projected bill of the Mar
gueritte brothers has remained side
traced at the chamber of deputies ever
since. Marshall Lord.