New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

said TO her:
"My little one, my heart beats to Be IA,
among these scenes. And you, tell =.
you
She replied in repressed voice:
"My dear, am very happy"
GLOW love you! But is it not hns-s.
sunset over there?"
She answered her voice still more represss.
1T is very fine"
And remarked that the umbrella trsubl.,
a little in her hand.
lie continued:
"Down there, you see facing US, at the ent,
to the roadstead"-
She responded, turning toward him:
my love. I see everything"
She pressed his hand, looking at him with Al
the ardor in her eyes. r.,
Then, in a much lower tone, he doubte,
whispered to her some words Of love and thank
which could not hear. Suddenly, raising h.
voice again and speaking almost jubiIanuy,h
continued:
"Ah! To escape from the winter trenches,
and then from that sitting hospital, and to
feel the sun once more on ones shoulders
Look, dearest; look, my love; see down their
what am going to point out to you
She made nervous gesture, and then, a.
most brusquely:
THAT big battleship hides it all. But ith
very beautiful
We were passing, in fact, before one Of thDs
superb monsters and he said to her, s.ammsr
ing in confusion this time:
"Ah! battleship? But when we shat
have passed it, you will see what was talking
about"
He was silent for a minute. Then he began
again land from the way in which he held bis
head could tell that he had an ear more sen.
sitive to sounds than people ordinarily hayel.
He began:
"Do you see the sea gulls?"
81 see them"
Charming little beasts, swift and agile; see
them fly about the great warships. They sur.
round them, pay homage to them, guard then
They represent sort of winged JOY. The!
suggest something poetic amid this conglOme-
alton of iron monsters. And when the sky
blue-as it is to-day, with this sun-look Of
their stomachs. Their little white stomachs
They give out a reflection of the blue Is
they fly
She said:
1T is true. 1t is charming. =. Wear
arriving"
He asked-very quickly:
do you see the city,"
II think | do"
"Do you find it so beautiful"
"No. Oh, no. 1t Isl
"How happily it is situated! Look at ~'
quay And how good everything smell'' Al
odor so wholesome and so robust, Of brine sno
of pitch! All, they are fine, the batuesni"'
Tell me, don't they look wonderful this even
ing?"
very wonderful"
"Yes, yes. 1t is rudely, ruggedly chic, 0''
France"
With those manly words of confidence on n'
lips he arose, for the boat was coming sloht
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arm, with charming gesture, half OF low
half of pity. The sun, now glorious and VI
shadowed bathed with the golden rays CT "
setting sea and quay, ships and men. A 'ul,
nous evening, charged with hope, the por'en'''
victory and reason for thinking OF vie'''"'
true feast for the eyes.
Close together, elbows touching, one ''f
porting the other, with a sort Of amorous care,
in each movement as they walked, they s'ePp..
down from the ferryboat. And when on y,
gangplank, his foot stumbled little an W
man of the people who watched them, as wv
said to me grufily:
zone sees sorry things in these bad UNIV
But there are some people who are OF tne ~,
stuff. He is blind, that man there, mons'e'.
He raised his hand to his hat as II 70 SAW"
Then he added:
"Since the attack in Champagne. l AH~
him well. He is from here. And the w.
wife-she is his nurse, whom he has MARI
She is a Russian. They are making nO'':
moon trip. He is showing her his country ),
he shows her everything, poor fellow; sn' a,
doesn't want TO have too much the air %
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