Come close, Mademoiselle, your feet are doubtless damp.

" "Mademoiselle's is the Doric," I said.

It was all quite mystifying and Titine was worried, but then Mademoiselle was no longer a child and, of course, Titine had only to obey orders.

"Yes, mademoiselle, and Palsdorf is a true German; much courage, strength and intellect, with the gayety and simplicity of a boy.

"If Monsieur Ratichon will assure me that Mademoiselle here is indeed his affianced wife, then indeed it is not a case of abduction, and" "Abduction!"

"The little Mademoiselle," they said, "she is a child saint.

On the other hand, be it recorded, that our Mademoiselle, chivalrous royalist to the last, was the only person at the French court who refused to wear mourning for the usurper Cromwell!

"Mademoiselle," I said, "it is a pleasure to render you even so small a service.

"If Mademoiselle is the fiancée of Monsieur, and is acting of her own free will" "It is not for you to interfere, eh, my friend?"

But then, Mademoiselle was a wonderful personlike no one since the beginning of the world.

Not to be outdone in civility, Markham replied: "Mademoiselle" he paused and changed her title to "Madame" (a discretion which the others acknowledged with nods of the head)Madame was Yvonne Deschamps, Premir lady musician of the world, who played five separate and distinct musical instruments at one and the same timean artist known, as the Signor would perhaps be aware, from Sicily to Sweden, from Brittany to the Russias.

"And Mademoiselle is an angel.

" "Dear Mademoiselle, your brother is an excellent fellow, and not a bit more popular than he deserves to be.