e hurried along, looking into the windows.... There was Mamma, there was Mamma! An

ere you are! There

sed him, her han

uld I do so lon

it yourself! Come, make haste, I've g

in the cab, while they we

e said, "is there re

nding seven weeks at Nice, in a first

of it like that,"

oo, they both bubbled with mirth, Constance glad at seeing

laimed. "Did you really never th

d Constan

ng again. He shook his head,

too, for the things you b

d, remembering. "B

were abroad and that

rse," s

the Kerkhoflaan in

looked after the master

a'am.... But it's just as

Const

l, H

have a go

es

lookin

have you waite

of co

y hands and I'll be

moment ... that there was

" said Van

e natural; and, when Constance ca

k that there was

meant to make a scene. But he was smilin

, as if it was

er, Addie with his silent convulsions, wh

Van der Welcke, teasing him. "

gay as they sat

next to at the table d'h?te: the d'Azignys, from Rome.... The first people I me

he French ambassador at Rome and hi

greatly interested.

r Welcke,' I replied. He flushed up and his wife nudged him, but after that they were very charming and amiable all the time I was at Nice. I saw a lot of them and, through their introduction, I went to a splendid ball at the Duc de

at did yo

there. As a foreigner, you need have nothing to trouble about, you can do just as you like, know just whom you please. You feel so free

n, nor yet a cosmopolitan. And you'd better not say t

n my dear Holland that I feel like blow

ing you

m so glad to see you again. But I did think to myself that

an der Welcke

lived at Nice

, a little dubiously, "but you

ttle hand and struc

dn't you long for your pa

so much a

I didn't!" she exclaimed, in a shrill v

r Heaven's sake don't begin quarrelling at once, for I assure the two of you

ance gave one roar and A

der Welcke, choking wit

uttered a

he doesn't mean them a bit. She's really glad to be back again, in her horrid countr

obbed, sobbed aloud, so that Truitje, entering the room, started, but then, accusto

ke fiddled w

gether?" thought Addie, sadly, while he comfort