movement, every passing look, every careless ex- | in their lives. They took off their hats to each pression which either chanced to utter. other, and began to discuss the news of the day The remains of the Duke de Reichstadt lie in the and the merits of the new ballet, which they were vault of the Church of the Capuchins, in the square discussing when their seconds came up to tell them called the “ Mehl Markt," in Vienna. The body is that they had measured the ground, and that they now to be transported to Paris in order to be placed were waiting for the duel. M. Lacombe's ball struck in the Basilica of St. Denis, under the choir, in the M. Charles Blanc's right ear; M. Blanc's ball hit M. part reserved for the imperial family. A commis | Lacombe about the waist, who fell, but to rise in a A commission is soon to repair from Paris to Vienna to fetch few seconds, — the ball had hit his portemonnaie. the body of Napoleon's son: the members of it“ Vollà de l'argent bien placé," — that money was are Marshal Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angély, de well placed, or lent out to good interest, remarked Bassano, Cambacérès, and General Fleury. The | the witty Méry. Ministers of the Imperial Household and of the Fine Arts are ordered to make the necessary prepara Some interesting experiments have been made tions for fetching and for receiving the body. | lately at the slaughter-houses of Vincennes as to the The field of Waterloo is beginning to lose its at most merciful manner of killing animals with the least possible suffering. At present, oxen are traction for English visitors, and Königgrätz has slaughtered by blows from heavy hammers on the already usurped its place. The Bohemian villages | head, which necessarily inflicts the most frightful are overrun since some time with tourists, who, in torture on the unfortunate victims of our carnivoarticles in the newspapers, complain of bad beds and rous propensities. The idea occurred to an eminent other inconveniences. The only guide who speaks physiologist that the section of the spine would proEnglish at Königgrätz is named, and his address duce more instant death. This, however, has not given, so that travellers may know where to find been demonstrated. An ox thus killed lived for bim. twelve minutes, and endured during that time the FARADAY's death has caused sincere regret in most horrible sufferings. Decapitation was then Germany. All the journals speak of him in terms of tried with the following curious result. A calf the highest appreciation. I was asked the other day I was hung up and decapitated in the space of a if I knew which was Sir Humphry Davy's greatest quarter of a minute. Its bead was then placed on a discovery. On suggesting that it might possibly be table. In six minutes two ounces and a half of the safety-lamp, I was told “No: his greatest dis- / blood were lost. During the first minute the face covery was Faraday." You are aware that Faraday | was frightfully convulsed, the mouth opened and was a poor youth, and went to Sir Humphry to ask shut as though the animal were eating; and, strange for some explanations of a lecture he had heard, and to say, on putting the hand against the mouth and Sir Humphry at once perceived the extraordinary I nostril, it was easy to feel the respiration continuing. abilities which the young student of natural science Thirty animals were thus killed, and the result of possessed. the observations taken was that the committee de cided that the old practice of killing by means of Bmds of passage are said to have begun their blows from a hammer should be continued. annual migration southwards through Belgium a month earlier this year than usual: already long lines of storks have taken flight; bustards have MISSES. been killed in the neighborhood of Paris, and wild ducks have passed in such numbers that the eye can UXLUCKY VULCAX! Vulcan tricked him : not follow them. This is a presage of a hard winter. A fashion with the ladies this is. I'm not amiss : but I'm a victim M. FRANCIS LACOMBE, the brilliant contributor To a whole host of wicked misses. to several Paris papers, as well as the author of “L'Histoire du Bourgeoisie de Paris," and of' " La Miss Fit supplies my boots and coats, Monarchie en Europe," has died at Ariachon, And vain is all my indignation: whither he went in the hope that the air of the pine My cash-book and my gold and notes forest which skirts the bay would restore him to Are managed by Miss Calculation. health. The event has recalled a duel, which at the time created an immense sensation. Lacombe, in Viss Take has played me many a trick; an article published in the assemblie Vationale, Miss Spell will always write my letters ; attacked U. Louis Blanc, U. Blane's brother Charles, Miss Trust declines to give me tick; then director of the Beaux Arts, challenged him in Miss Manage lets off all my debtors. the absence of his brother. The place of meeting was Vincennes. The exlitor of the Red Coren Miss Print is wont to spoil my rhyme, — porrain., Vicomte de Calonne, and M. de Montessné A very wicked habit is hers: were l. Lacombe's seconds. The Comte de Vieu And it they quote me any time, orkertue and the celebrated poet and novelist Miss Quote's the girl to use the scissors. Méry, acted as M. Blane's seconds. During the drive to Vincennes Mery was not only full of wit, When Christmas bumpers overflow, but most interesting on scientitie subjects. He had And bells ring loud from many a minster, just pablished "Ilva," which had been attacked by I can't get near to Miss L. To the Cuvier school, Nery spoke with such enthus Save with some very ancient spinster. asm of the wonders of creation, of the lost species of mantolons and flying monsters, that by the time Well, easy 't is down hill to glide, his litors arrived at Vincennes they bud utlarly And vain to Parce to importune: forgotten all about the quel W. (Charles Bline and So let me wed mr bonay bride, M. Lacombe wet vu that morning for the first time ! A charming child she is, — Miss Fortune. Printed at the Diversity Press, Cambndge, by Welch, Bigelow. & Co, for Ticknor and Fields. CANINE CELEBRITIES.* hair, carroty red; nose, sharp; chin, round; coun tenance, angular. Personal peculiarity, a habit of "I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ?" breaking and smashing everything. WHOSOEVER's dog you, gentle reader, may be, In due time, Athos was put out to board and I, the gentle writer, am, for the nonce, M. Emile lodge with a gamekeeper, who taught him to find, Richebourg's devoted dog and ardent admirer. to point, and to fetch, for twenty francs per month, That gentleman has had the patience - no, he has or two hundred and forty francs per annum. The allowed himself the pleasure of putting together a pup pupil soon gave signs of promise. In a fortnight he bulky volume, entitled, “ Histoire des Chiens Célès could find a hen in the poultry-yard, catch it at the bres, full of all sorts of stories about all sorts of dogs. hencoop, and fetch it to the kennel, where he disHe has been dog-fishing on an enormous scale, and cussed it in company with a couple of bandy-legged his net has hauled to shore an extraordinary variety terriers. of canine prey. It is to be hoped that some pub “Good!” said the keeper, when he beheld the feathers with which the Red Dog had softened the lisher will, with his permission, present us with the entire work in an English dress. A great many of straw of his bed. “I think I shall be able to make the dogs are quite new to us. Nevertheless, there something of this fellow.” He at once made out Athos's bill for the are dogs historical, biblical, and classical ; seriocomic, melodramatic, tragical and farcical dogs ; month : Francs. dogs political, domestic, and mendicant; every dog, Board and instruction during March . . 20 in short, you can imagine, and a great many more; Hen killed . . . . . . .. for after reading M. Richebourg's amusing compila 3 Collar torn . . . . . . . ! tion, you will confess that with them, as often occurs Leash broken , with the human race, truth is strange, - stranger Medical attendance for indigestion after killthan fiction. ing the hen · · · · · · 5 In turning over his well-filled pages, to select a short example or two, the choice is rendered diffi Total . . . . 30 cult by his immense store of anecdotic wealth. Which dog shall I first take by the paw to introduce The months of April, May, Jane, July, and Auto the British public? Shall it be a lady or a gen gust followed, with like results; that is, the Red | Dog, making daily progress, added pigeons to hares, tleman ? a puppy, or a dog advanced in years? a terrier, a turnspit, a coach-dog, or a mastiff? At ducks to pigeons, and rabbits to ducks. The game keeper had never had a boarder so little particular the present moment, the weighty decision may in bis choice of food. almost be left to chance; for one of the conse On the 4th of September, the day before the quences — perhaps I ought to say one of the premonitory symptoms — of the shooting season is, that opening of the shooting season, Athos's master, men's minds are turned to dogs in general, toimit Monsieur H- , a rising young doctor with a limited practice, came to fetch him. The teacher pointers and retrievers in particular. brought him out in triumph. I will therefore ask my sporting readers if they “Monsieur,” he said, “ you have got there a most ever had, and what they would do were they ever wonderful dog. I shall be curious to hear of his to have, a dog in the guise of Athos the Terrible, — performances." “Does he point well?” “Nothing to boast of. He dashes off in fine Athos (notorious as “ The Red Dog" throughout the whole arrondissement of Melun) never knew style; but he listens to nothing, will have his own his parents. His mother abandoned him to the wa way, flushes the game a hundred yards off, runs after it a mile, and then comes down upon the care of a goat, who first suckled him, and then dis other dogs like a thunderbolt. A good creature, carded him by means of vigorous thrusts with her horns. His father, an incorrigible poacher, appears nevertheless; keen nose, sweet temper; all you to have suffered the penalty of the law before he could lick his infant son. At the present writing, “How does he find?” Athos is two years old, having been born in Paris “ Very tolerably. But he is sometimes before on the 15th of June, 1865. Height, twenty inches ; you, sometimes behind you, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left; never within gunshot, and * From the advance sheets of London Society for October, 1867. loften not within earshot. But a good creature, Francs. sharp-eyed, sure-footed, keen-nosed, sweet-temper-| “Monsieur,” he said, politely, uncovering first his ed; all you want." badge of office and then his head, “ I am very sorry “But I hope, at least, that he can fetch ?” for what has happened, for you have certainly there “ Whatever you like; hares, rabbits, pheasants, a most wonderful dog. But we have a painful duty partridges; only he brings the bares and rabbits in to perform. You will receive to-morrow a summons quarters and the partridges in halves. But an ex- for trespass. Good morning, Monsieur. I wish you cellent creature, capital teeth, fine scent, sweet luck." temper; you want nothing more.” “A nice beginning!” muttered poor H“I can shoot with him, then ?” If you wish it to go on better,” said one of his “ Certainly. Here is his little bill." friends, “ I advise you to fasten Athos to your game bag behind you. Here's a capital strap. If it Six months' board and paternal care, at 20 breaks, I will pay for all the mischief he does." francs per month, as agreed . . 120 The advice was found good. A minute after16 hens killed, at 3 fr. . . . . . 48 4 ducks ditto, at 3 fr. . . . . wards, Athos and his master were a semi-attached 6 pigeons ditto, at 1 fr. . . couple, entertaining about the same mutual affection 18 rabbits ditto, at 3 fr. .. as a constable and his prisoner. They set off again 2 fat geese ditto, at 4 fr. . . to continue their sport. 3 neighbors cats ditto, at 5 fr. . . . 15 “Parbleu !” said H- ; "it was the best thing Crockery broken . . 45 I could do. Gently, Athos, there's a good dog. Sheets, napkins, and towels torn and devoured 120 I've got you, however. Go at them, now, all you' Children bitten, gendarmes insulted, rural po like." licemen scared . . . . . . 100 Telling Athos to “go at them," was like telling Total , . . 529 a thief to steal. He did go at them so well that he “Five hundred and twenty-nine francs !” ex- upset his master, and got loose by tearing the gameclaimed Monsieur H- frightened out of his wits. bag to which he was fastened. He then celebrated " Why, the sum is perfectly exorbitant.” his liberty by a zigzag steeplechase, in the course “Not a sou too much. Only keep your dog a of which he did not leave even a lark upon the fortnight, and you will see whether I have over-ground. charged a single item.” "I have had enough of it for to-day,” said H" Athós must be a confounded thief, then,-a “You will find me at the farm. Perhaps you will thorough brigand!” keep an eye on Athos." “Not at all. He's only young; fond of play. Before entering the house, he thought it prudent He kills right and left; he plunders ; he devours. to discharge the left barrel of his gun, which he had But he's almost a puppy; he 'll grow steadier with not fired. He took aim at an apple, and pulled the age. A good creature, sweet-tempered; the very trigger. The apple did not fall, but the barrel burst. thing for you.” A handful of earth had plugged the mouth of the Monsieur H- paid the money with a half-barrel when the Red Dog had thrown him down on suppressed sigh, and started for the farm over which the ground. he was to shoot next day in company with a few At noon the sportsmen returned to luncheon. select friends and Athos the Terrible. The Red Dog led the way, seizing, as he entered, a The night passed quietly enough. The only fine roast fowl, breaking the dish, spilling the gravy serious discussion the Red Dog had was with the over the farmer's wife's new dress, and upsetting a house-dog, the shepherd's dog, the lap-dog, and the maidservant laden with a basket of eggs. eight pointers, his future companions. The whole “A pretty piece of business !” exclaimed the was summed up in a few torn ears and an adminis- farmer's wife." If people have no better dogs than tration of the whip by a wagoner, whose hand was that, the best thing they can do is to leave them at as heavy as his slumbers were light. Next morn | home. The next time the Red Dog sets foot in here ing, at seven, the sportsmen, after swallowing a cup the bouse will be too hot to hold him." of café-au-lait, which was to support them till eleven, “The dog will be my ruin," H- said to himand Athos with a capon on his conscience, which self, turning as red as a new-boiled lobster. Ifenabled him to wait for the first wounded hare, this goes on, I shall have to leave the country. I ranged themselves in battle array. must really take some decisive step." The first shot was fired at a covey of partridges, With infinite trouble he caught the Red Dog; immediately after entering a field of beetroot.A then he bound him hand and foot; then he chained bird fell at Athos's nose, he looked at it disdain- him to an iron staple inside the box of his dog-cart, fully, and set off in chase of the rest of the covey. which he double locked, and fastened outside with Unluckily, it kept up on the wing until it reached an additional bolt. In this way he reached home the Marquis le Bonton's property. Athos, caring without much further unpleasantness. - But while little for such trifles, followed it with all the strength his friends were counting their game, he made a of his legs and his lungs. little estimate, for his own edification, of what Athos “ Hang the dog! Here, Athos !" and other cries, had cost him up to that moment: burst forth from the exasperated gunners. Francs. The noise attracted the marquis's gamekeeper, Keeper's bill for board and training . . 529 who whistled the dog to come to him. But Athos, Capon for Athos's breakfast. . . taught by experience that a keeper's whistle is often Summons for trespass, &c., &c. .. the precursor of his whip, stared at the whistler and Mending torn game-bag .. Gun burst continued the chase, as if the Department of Seine . . . . . Roast fowl, for dinner . . . . . et-Marne bad contained neither a keeper nor a ! Dish broken . . marquis. Nevertheless, the stoutest sinews will tire. Replacing merino dress spoiled by the spilt gravy 60 After having his run, Athos thought fit to rejoin the Basketful of eggs broken sportsmen. As he sauntered up in one direction, the marquis's keeper stalked forward in the other. Total . . . . "S A fortnight passed without H- 's friends hear the word of command, rising on his hind legs, he ing any news of him or of his dog. One of them at follows the evolutions of his master's band, which is last received the following note: provided with a lump of sugar. He circles round “ MY DEAR CHARLES, the room, revolving on his own axis, and keeping * You know how I hate that fellow Lejeune, and time to music when played to him, after which he is rewarded with the sugar. If, however, it is offered the cause of my hatred. You are aware that he to him with the left hand he draws back with of beguiled away my first patient, and persuaded the woman I loved to marry him. I swore to be re- || fended dignity; but as soon as the morsel is made venged, and I have kept my word. I have pre to change hands he seizes it at once, and makes sented him with Athos; he accepts the Red Dog. " I In society we are sometimes troubled with visitors “Ever yours, in delighted haste, who to their other infirmities add the bad habit of “ Henri H.” leaving doors open behind them. On such occasions Of the ingenious atrocity of this mode of ven- Bianchino rushes at the door, and does not rest geance it is needless for us to say a word. until the bolt has caught the staple. Bianchino has also had his fabulous adventures. Our next portrait is that of a drawing-room dog; He went to school, it seems like you and me. The and as everybody thinks his own dog the best, the myth originated thủs: He had gone through his perdearest, the most interesting in the world, M. Emile formances before a numerous audience. The chilDumont (cited by M. Richebourg) shall present his dren of the party laughed till they cried. A curly. favorite himself. headed rogue went up to Captain F., and asked, Bianchino (the diminutive of the Italian word, “ Was it you, Monsieur, who taught him all this?" bianco, " white,") is a Spitzberg dog, a race very 60 dear, no! 't was his schoolmaster.” Then, largely kept in Russia, which was introduced to addressing the juveniles collectively, he added, “ You France at the time of the invasion, – the only fault see, my young friends, the result of good conduct with which it can be reproached. In winter, Bian- and perseverance. While still a puppy, Bianchino chino is a shaggy lion ; in summer, he is shorn close, carried off all the prizes at the Dogs' Academy, poodle fashion : he is then the drollest looking crea- Now that his education is complete, instead of being ture in the world. Brought up and educated by a pupil he has become a teacher." Captain F- , a retired cavalry officer, he is con- | The children, mystified, opened their eyes. sequently subjected to strict military discipline. “He now gives lessons,” continued Captain F. Any infraction of the rules is followed by punish- “Does he charge dear for them?” one of the ment. young folk inquired. “ Ah, Bianchino! you have committed a fault,” is “ That depends; Bianchino has his favorites." said to him in such a case. “Go to prison, sir. Upon which the child, turning to his father, said, Consider yourself arrested for one, two, or three “ O papa, it would be so nice if you would let him days." give my dog Blacko some lessons.” At this order Bianchino droops his head, tucks his In spite of all which brilliant success, Bianchino's tail between his legs, and walks off to one of the existence was not unclouded. He had a rival, -a corners of the room. There he stands on his hind rival preferred to himself, who put his nose quite legs, up against the wall, with his back turned to the out of joint. One day there came to town a little company, and remains there until set at liberty; that new-born babe. Great was the joy of the delighted is, until his master has counted, with intervals of parents. The days were not long enough to fondle silence more or less long, "one," "two," or "three," the child in; the dog was neglected and pushed according to the gravity of the offence. aside. He growled inwardly as he crouched beBianchino is very fond of the captain's horse. neath the cradle. He wept, he groaned, he ground He frequently visits him in the, stable, which is his teeth at the sight of the caresses lavished on shared with another horse belonging to a friend. baby.s But when he saw the infant toddling from These horses are attended to by different grooms, chair to chair, when the smiling infant threw his and receive different rations of food. Now the arms around his neck, all aversion and jealousy discompanion horse is allowed carrots, which the cap- appeared. No longer regarding him as a rival, he tain's is not; and the deprivation is especially tan- patronized him as a protégé. He rolled with him talizing, because the aromatic roots are piled within over and over on the carpet; he allowed his hair and sight and smell in a corner of the stable. his ears to be pulled ; and on high days and holidays It was found that this heap diminished rapidly, even aeted as hobby-horse, maintaining all the while more rapidly, indeed, than it fairly ought. By care- a certain air of superiority. ful watching it was discovered that Bianchino was Bianchino has his place in the family circle, and the author of the theft. He thought it hard that his his photograph figures in the family album. One master's borse should not fare so well as the other day, when the boy was sitting for his portrait, the did, so he pulled the carrots out of the heap one by dog came and lay down at his feet. It is a charmone, and carried them to his friend, who munched / ing group, all the better for being perfectly natural them without scruple. and unaffected. Bianchino feigns death, admirably. At a pretended There are dogs who are almost public characters. sword-thrust or a pistol-shot, he falls to the ground, Toto, for instance, a white poodle of the purest stretches himself out, and remains motionless until breed, belonged to a Parisian café-keeper. As neat the bugle, like the trump of judgment, sounds his in person as lively in temper, he was the favorite resurrection, and gives the signal for resuming his not only of his master and his men but of all the frolics. This, however, is only a souvenir of what customers who frequented the establishment. But he witnessed on the field of battle ; for after serving besides his mere external graces the poodle renin the army, he retired on half pay at the same time | dered important service by performing errands inas the captain did. trusted to him. Every morning, carrying the basBianchino dances and waltzes to perfection. At ket in his mouth, he went to fetch the rolls at the baker's. He would make five or six journeys, if I count de la Châtaigneraie, a handsome young man, necessary, not only without the slightest complaint, with but scanty resources besides a small estate in but also with the strictest integrity. True, Toto the Nivernais and an allowance made him by his fared sumptuously every day, but the rolls he carried uncle, the Archbishop of Bordeaux. The world, were very tempting. however, gave him credit for a good chance of obOne morning, as usual, Toto delivered the basket taining the widow's hand. of rolls to his mistress. She counted them; one “When the band commenced I looked out for was nissing. The idea of suspecting Toto's honesty you; but you allowed me to sit here without coming never once entered her head. She said to berself, to fetch me.” “ The baker has made a mistake.” A waiter was “Madame, I cannot deny the fact." sent to mention the circumstance. “It is possible," “ The truth is, Viscount, that you like the cardsaid the baker, giving the man a roll to make up table better than the ballroom; you prefer the for the one deficient. “I did not count them my- Queen of Clubs and the rest of her sisters to keepself; but you may tell your mistress that we will see ing your engagement with me." that all is right to-morrow." " I assure you, Madame — ” The next day there was again a roll too few. “It is quite useless your protesting to the contraAgain they went to the baker's to complain. ry after acting thus. I am sorry that such should “ I counted the rolls into the 'basket myself," he be the case; but wretched is the woman who is said, rather angrily; so I am sure they were right. foolish enough to set her heart upon a gambler. If your poodle is a glutton it is not my fault.” You deserve to be punished, and you shall be, I This speech plainly accused Toto of theft; and promise you." appearances, unfortunately, were much against him. “At least, Madame, I should like to know the Nevertheless his mistress persisted in expressing her nature of my punishment." doubts, so convinced did she feel of Toto's innocence. “Well, sir, it is simply this: I will save you one She decided, however, to have him secretly followed, of my bitch's puppies. And with a courtesy she in order to catch him in the fact if really guilty. left him to join her other guests. The next day a waiter, placed in ambuscade, saw At the present day such a speech would sound him go to the baker's, and leave it with his basket vulgar, nay coarse, in a lady's mouth ; but in 1782, full. Then, instead of taking the direct road home, and at Bourges, the capital of the province of Berri, he turned off by a side street. The waiter, curious it was merely a proverbial saying, expressing, in exto learn the meaning of this manæuvre, watched cellent though old-fashioned French, “I will have him into a courtyard, where he stopped before amy revenge.” During the rest of the evening, seestable door which had a loophole at the bottom, to ing that his hostess kept him at a distance, he could allow cats to go in and out. The waiter then saw not but acknowledge the gravity of his offence, him set the basket down, gently take out a roll, and and apprehended the vengeance — a woman's venpresent it at the cat-hole, where another dog's mouth geance-with which he had been deservedly threatinstantly received it, as if an animal imprisoned ened. there were awaiting its accustomed pittance. That Nevertheless, a month elapsed without the occurdone, Toto took up his basket, and trotted off home rence of any unpleasant circumstance. La Chaas fast as he could. taigneraie, believing that the Marquise bore no more The waiter, on questioning the portress, was in malice than he did himself, supposed that his fault formed that in the stable there was a bitch who had was forgiven or forgotten. "He had come, however, littered only three days ago ; and it was exactly for to too hasty a conclusion. One January evening, the last three days that the number of rolls brought on his return from shooting, Fridolin, his valet, home was short by one. handed him the following letter :On returning he related to his mistress and the 1 - DEAR VISCOUNT, customers present what he had seen and what the “ A promise is as binding as a written engageportress had told him. “ Capital !” exclaimed the lady. “Bravo, Toto! ment. An honest Marquise must keep her word. Good dog! Our hearts would be considerably I said I would save you one of my bitch's puppies. harder than yours if we treated such conduct as a You will receive it a few minutes after the delivery | of this. Oblige me by giving him the name of Diacrime.” She consequently ordered that Toto should mond, which his ancestors have borne with unblemhave full liberty of action in the disposal of the ished honor. rolls. “Yours, with sincere compliments, Toto, therefore, using his discretion, continued for “ THE MARQUISE DE SERVAY." a certain time the same allowance to the lady in the straw; and then, when she began to wean her pups, La Châtaigneraie had scarcely finished reading the he honestly brought home, as heretofore, the exact note when a servant entered and presented him with number of rolls delivered to him by the baker. a basket, in which he found a little greyhound pup. He began to swear, feeling bimself humiliated and Our next dog answers to the name of Diamond, / a laughing-stock. The joke, he thought, had been - not the Diamond whose destruction of mathemat- carried too far. The creature was weakly and anyical papers, so calmly borne by the philosopher thing but handsome ; so he told his man to tie a Newton, is an instance of canine carelessness, but a stone to its neck, and drown it in the Loire. far better dog, though of minor celebrity, who had “ Poor thing," said Fridolin. “It is not its fault been saved from oblivion by M. Philibert Aude- if Madame amuses herself at your expense. Let brand. me keep it, Monsieur, and bring it up. I will un" Viscount, you engaged me for the third qua dertake all the trouble myself.” drille," said the Marquise de Servay, a rich young “Do as you please. If Madame de Servay were widow who was giving her first ball after throwing but a man l or if she only bad a brother to answer off her weeds. for her impertinence !" “I cannot deny it, Madame," replied the Vis- This jeer in action galled him deeply. Instead of |