The things we do!

Can you
fancy a twopenny-halfpenny baroness of King Francis's time patronising
Bayard? Can you imagine Queen Guinever's lady's-maid's lady's maid being
affable to Sir Lancelot? I protest there is nothing like the virtue of
English women.
"You have only arrived to-day, and you came to see me? That was very
kind. N'est-ce pas que c'etoit bong de Mouseer le Collonel, mademoiselle?
Madamaselle Lebrun, le Collonel Newcome, mong frere." (In a whisper, "My
children's governess and my friend, a most superior woman.") "Was it not
kind of Colonel Newcome to come to see me? Have you had a pleasant
voyage? Did you come by St. Helena? Oh, how I envy you seeing the tomb of
that great man! Nous parlong de Napolleong, mademoiselle, dong voter pere
a ete le General favvory."
"O Dieu! que n'ai je pu le voir," interjaculates mademoiselle. "Lui dont
parle l'univers, dont mon pere m'a si souvent parle!" but this remark
passes quite unnoticed by mademoiselle's friend, who continues:
"Clive, donnez-moi voter bras.


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