of a desire to renew her study of them. To all appearances, she passed out of their lives when Madame de Malri

termination to lose no time, and his perplexity how to set most speedily ab

arisian residence of twenty-five years, spent in a state of feverish servitude to the great artists of the rue de la Paix, her dress and hair still retained a certain rigidity in keeping with the directness of her gaze

flourish unchecked by the national progressiveness: a little world sparsely peopled by compatriots in the same attitude of chronic opposition toward a society chronically unaware of them. In this uncontaminated air Mr. and Mrs. Boykin had preserved the purity of simpler conditi

ble foreigner was doing; so that they reminded Durham of persons peacefully following the course of a horrible war by pricking red pins in a map. To Mrs. Durham, with her gentle tourist's view of the European continent, as a vast Museum in which the human multitudes simp

studied her cousin as he balanced himself insecurely on one of t

ve didn't like them; but as she's been separated for five or six years, I can't see-. You say she's been very nice to your mother and the girls? Well, I daresay she is beginning to feel the need of friends she can really trust;

rtunity. "Is she so ve

de charité. They all remember us then; and some American women are silly enough to ruin themselves at the smart bazaars, and fancy they will get invitations in return. They say Mrs. Addison G. Pack followed Madame d'Alglade around for a

ally I have no desire to thrust myself into French society-I can't see how any American wom

uld, then," Du

n, at this point, advanced across the wide expanse of Aubusson on which hi

teuil this afternoon. You don't race? Busy sight-seeing, I suppose?

n numéro-you see the point? Not that I speak from personal knowledge. Bessy and I have never cared to force our way-" He paused, reflecting that his wife had probably anticipated him in the expression of this familiar sentiment, and added with a significant nod: "Of course you know the Prince d'Armillac by sight? No? I'

who is employed by Madame d'Armillac's jewel

er husband, who was slightly jealous of having his fact

oykin interposed with archness. "I suspect

ost's low whistle of amusement, and the sardonic enquiry: "Ever do anyth

s absolutely necessary; but I mean to make the lady

more fashionable people than we are. Elmer and I so thoroughly disapprove of French society that we have

nk she is on very intimate ter

ed sarcastically; while her husband added, with an air of portentous initiation: "Ah, my

ring at that moment, tendered her a large coronetted envelope, she held it up a

ourse. The brazen way in which they combine religion and immorality! Fifty francs admission-rien que cela!-to see some of the most disreputable people in Europe. And if you're an American, yo

she'll ask you to tea," M