" We were holding Permanent Session at Marie's house in the Rue Croix des Petits Champs.

At Marie's we were on the point of being surrounded.

DAY We left Marie's house just in time.

Marie's sniff was audible at thirty feet.

'Martin took his seat astride of an African tom-tom or drum; and I noticed at the time that Jean Marie's naked foot hung down from the cross-beam almost directly over Martin's head.

He tired of the needlework which, doubtless, Marie's skilled hands had taught him.

Another half minute, and that face also had melted out of the mirror, at least for Marie's eyes; and in its place an ancient negress, white-haired, withered as the wrinkled ape, but with eyes closedin death.

One rainy winter's evening a young woman, in deep mourning, with her face covered with a thick veil, stopped at the Curé of St. Marie's door.

To me it seems that the whole old resident population of the frontiers, together with the new accessions to it, in the shape of petty dealers of all sorts, are determined to have the Indians' furs, at any rate, whether these poor red men live or die; and many of the dealers who profess to obey the laws wish to get legally inland only that they may do as they please, law or no law, after they have passed the flag-staff of Sainte Marie's.

And then I told her how he said he'd remembered what I'd said to him in the parlor that dayhow tired I got being Mary, and how I'd put on Marie's things just to get a little vacation from her; and he said he'd never forgotten.

I've been about four days bringing this autobiography of Mary Marie's to an end.

She told much, of course, that was in Mary Marie's diary; but she told, too, oh, so much more, until like a panorama the whole thing lay before me.

The source of Marie's inspiration is perfectly clear, for she states it emphatically in quite a number of her Lays.

Marie's part consisted in reshaping this ancient material in her own rhythmic and coloured words.

At the commencement of this Introduction I stated that Marie's romances are concerned mainly with love.

It came about in this way: Anne Marie and she lived in the little red-washed cabin against which she leaned; had lived there alone with each other for fifty years, ever since Jeanne Marie's husband had died, and the three children after him, in the fever epidemic.

In a flash all Anne Marie's ill luck ran through Jeanne Marie's mind; how her promised husband had proved unfaithful, and Jeanne Marie's faithful; and how, ever since, even to the coming out of her lottery numbers, even to the selling of vegetables, even to the catching of the rheumatism, she had been the loser.

She shot the ball into the basket right through Marie's hands.

Where are the plaudits, warm and long, That erst have follow'd Marie's song?

And Marie's child, in time to come, Shall call his grandsire's castle, home!

Their two vigorous sons enlisted together, and fell in the charge on Marie's Hill, within ten feet and ten minutes of each other.

I can see the moon sailing through a clear sky, and on the pavement's edge Marshall's beautiful, slim, manly figure, and Marie's exquisite gracefulness.

In vain did the boy-King storm and protest; equally futile were Marie's tearful pleadings to her uncle.

Lorraine tolerated Marie's presence as a necessary evil, while to her he always seemed like a presentiment of trouble.

Indeed, Marie's mother still listens with respectful approval at Kaffeeklatsch to Fritz's mother when she boasts of what her son is doing as a major over Turkish troops.