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"Il ne faut pas faireit aloud--"faire

azes beyond the salon, back into the big dining hall, where

the white crepe rows Ha! ho that bat has circled It has

struck Ma'aie full on the breast She does not know it She is

beyond there in the dining hall, where her father sits with a group

of friends over their wine As usual they are talking politics How

tiresouerre" oftener than once La

guerre Bah! She and Felix have so pleasanter to talk about, out

under the oaks, or back in the shadow of the oleanders

But they were right! The sound of a cannon, shot at Sumter, has rolled

across the Southern States, and its echo is heard along the whole

stretch of Cote Joyeuse

Yet Pelagie does not believe it Not till La Ricaneuse stands before

her with bare, black ar a volley of vile abuse and

of brazen iie wants to kill her But yet she will not

believe Not till Felix co

hall--there where that truood-by to her

The hurt which the big brass buttons of his new gray uniform pressed

into the tender flesh of her bosom has never left it She sits upon the