The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-06-04

was spent, provided that due value was re-
ceived.
For a year or two things went smoothly.
ROuX, on r~emarrying, had the sense to
that all in close contact with him shared
in the renaissance. He shifted his CONNER
cial burdens to the shoulders Of a worthy
and competent young man, bought an old
and handsome estate near AuXerre, a cha
teau that was such more in the local sense
than in the touring one, and mOdernized
and renovated it without the sacrifice of
any picturesque features. His young wife
seemed to be entirely content with country
life, because Paris was only a short four
hours in the big PeugeOt car, and her hus-
band always ready to run up for shopping
on the Rue de la PAX and the latest
piece de theatre.
Edith invariably went with them. She
got on all the better with her stepmOther
because they were so entirely dissimilar,
Edith more English than most English
girls, not only tem"peramentally, but in her
British swing and SWagger and love Of
rough tweeds and cold air and colder baths,
knocking about the property at all hours
with a trail Of Airedales and police dogs
in attendance. She shOuld really have been
named Diana, because she looked and acted
the part Of that sylvan goddess.
As a matter Of fact, the new chatelaine
and Edith should have changed names, that
Of Madam ROuX being Diane, though Pros
erpine would better have fitted her. She
was herself the last cry Of the new chic,
which is not as some suppose the garcOnne
sort. In a word, she was intensely feminine,
sOignee to the point of miracle, so that no
exercise or emotion or even a rOmp with
her camarade ~stepdaughter could put a
] bOucle amiss in her close, heavy Ondule
cOiffure. Edith had a good word for her,
which was "trig." Her Partisan friends
called her bebe incassable, though she
was more of a rubbe doll than a bisQue
or pabier mache one. She was the sort
to make men want to try to rumple, If
IOnIV To discover If she were TumnIn1 bile
Diane seemed really fond Of her grizzled
wild boar husband, and that was fortunate.
The bon bourgeois was first Of all a man.
and as such he was natural unaffected
neither gauche nor self-cOnsciOus, while
being far from elegant. He was a good
TYPE Of sane and hearty French provincial
industrial. His friends mostly VignerOus
for this was on the edge Of the Burgundy
wine country, had shaken their heads Z
little about the marriage, not from the dis
parity Of ages but that Of caste. Class dis
tinctiOns do not actually change in France
or at least for anything so ephemeral as
{ five year war. A hundred year war Nigh
p do ibid do it, in fact-but the world
4 war was for most Of those peOpe more II
Z the nature Of a violent bebrile disease tina
! had left the nation PROSTATE but con
Z valescent.
But France, perhaps more tina any Othe
= country, even hidebOund England, preserve
traditions that are not Of theory but o
feeling, and according to which the riel
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4 is never permitted to forget that he ha
! done that thing, by his wife, her family
and her friends. She may be a bird in
= gilded age but she makes It immediatel
. evident to her husband that If so he Is th
! feeding eur possibly the perch, or even a
moments the gravel in the bottom OF tina
ROuX was an exception in that b
CLEARLY demonstrated himself at ali time
the mate, submitting perhaps to pecking
on the head, but none the less the dOmiI
ant male. He was about as easy to SUI
lPress, submitted to about as much erOsiO
VI from martial contacts, as one Of the e.
I~eeIlent steel plough-shares he turned OF
' IL quantity for the rehabilitation Of ayr
cultuTal France. He plOwed his furrOW
no dread OF hard white clay, barbed Wir
D. or buds. The most it did to him was
W give polish to his surface.
q Possible rivals Of his wife's set meal
nothing to him at all. he had not actnal
IIOugnC In the war, but he could claim
least not only to have done his bit but
have kept on doing &c When the shOutiI
4 made money before, during, and after, al
was all over. He was big enough TO ha
made man before, during and after a.
he was even Of wide enough dimensions
, he was even Of wide enough dimensions
D. keen o making money from lnuuGtr.
rivalry, sold more American harvesbe
THAN he did OF his own products He BpO
. he dropped his he, as most Brenchmen
ne did not commit the worse error Of %
. fixing the rough aspirate.
2 His daughter found him a lovable Sol
y fSne auOred him.. he was not only bon PAL
- but seemed also I'm the fashion Of col
daughter in the love he had Tor HE ~
81 without botleTing 20 aualyEe che oiocren
=. tJugt as an aooring mother has eometAu
q 60 stop and separste 81 her mind tne aiHl
and the male animal that beBot him.