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"Claeté; in a few minutes sho turned and walked
on beside the lame man.
The glow still lingered in the sky, but-a | sudden chúil fell on Louise; she turned liør back on the glorious sanset, end vort indoors, -
When Charlot reached the tall grey cross; he pulled off his hat, and mid “Good evening.”
The girl who sat there, rose and looket timidly at him.
"Good evening, sir, can you tell me if I am golog right for la Clarté ?*
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It was inte afternoon. Á sunbrowned woman was gathering potatoes from the red earth, with as much energy as though she had not been at the atmo work since dawn, indeed, during several days it seemed as if her deft brown
You are perfectly right, mademoiselle. I hands would never tiro of seeking for the resy, I must pass through the village on my way to smooth-skinned tubers. Her lac skirt was Tregastel, let us walk there together." shielded by a large black apron, hor dark hair They went on a few steps, then the girt smid being tightly strained into the bag-like crown | shyly, This country is beautiful. I did not of her white net cap
know that there was anything so beautiful in Brittany."
You mean Trestreou mad the bay dowa
"I mean all the country, monsieur. I have walked all the way from Lannion; oh, the coun- try is beautiful, it is like Heaven: ee that golden sunset, and the pale green sky abore it, eh. Mon Dieu !it is superb.
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Mon Dieu! a hoarse voice from the road nade Louise Lenet turn her white-capped hend Charlot stared all round him in surprise. H to the stone fence, and send a glance upward. w nothing beautiful in the wide extent of See there at la Clarté, how red the sky island and sea-scape stretching out from la Chart behind the church; the day is done, Madame to Tregustel and to Ploumana'ch: he was sed Lonet: gather up your potato, and come to it, he had often seen that glow against which the church spire and the picturesque tomo, will you not?"
Louise Letet stood up, and the orange red cottages of Sa Clarté looked so rich a purple. light which glowed behind the church spire on Presently the road mounted still higher, and the hill, seemed to glorify her face and its they came in sight of weird moorland, SEE THAT ALL PACKETS BEAR THE BGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT STAMP, expression. Brown and thin, her face was full broken here and there by monster rocks, of intelligence, bat beside ite traces of former some cranching like a-tond, or towering one beauty the eyes had a sweet thoughtfulness above another, huge masses that made a that made her noticeable among her fellows.
mana ch, now rosy red as the sau mark to rest. Yes, Charlot," she smiled at the long-haired, in foreground to the famous rocks of Float- lame man in the road.the day is gone, and I Among the misshapen rocks was seen the glitter grieve got to have supther hour; I will put the tubers in the cart. Jules will soon bring up the various channels, till it threatened destruction horse, and take them down to the barn at to the cottages of Ploumana'ch, nestled among Monsieur Meynel's: I am paid by weight, thy the huge masser of roay store. man; to-day's is a beavy gathering. Come up hill with me, Charlot, I can give you a supper to-night.
Gray-haired Charlots eyes glittered greedily "I come. I come instantly, Louise: but tell mo, is all this hard work still done for our son, Joseph You must be earning donble wages the lad does not need so much money as all that."
She laughed and finng her hands apart.
El, then, suppose he does! Harvest will soon be over, and only spinning will be left me: my wrist has been too weak for threshing since I hurt it, 'twill be as much as I can manage, to earu my journey money by the mouth's end."
Mercy on us, what a journey! Think of poor lame souls who cannot work, or earn; how many meals could they not have out of the cash you will squander on railroads and diligences before you reach Faris."
Louise Lenet langled yet more heartily. "You poor Charlot: Never fear my friends shall not suffer because I go to Paris. Listens here, my mon. If you were able-bodied, and ked a son, who did his work bravely, and was over- taken by aaaccident, would you not work extra bard so that you might go and comfort him, in the Hospital? Mon Dien! & cat would do as much for her kitten.
She had been walking briskly up the field to
reach the gate at the top, and the lame man bad kept pace with her, hobbling along the road; his face looked cynical as he answered:
Not so sure, Madame Lenet, fathers are not so creinions as mothers are; how do you know you will be a comfort to Joseph By this time he's get friends of his own, younger maybe; a bright-eyed girl, belike, not but what your own oyes are bright, but then you're his mother."
Louise reddened with anger.
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At this sight the girl clapped her hands with. delight.
“Aha," Charlot said, as if he had made a dis- covery, "you are from Pe I see that plain enough,"
At the question the girl recollected herself,
Yes, I'am from Paris," she said coldly, “but surely country folk must adwire such beauty as this. Please tell me, sir, if those cottages ou our left do not belong to la Clarté ? I seek Madame Monod who dwells near the church."
(To be continued.)
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At the point where the bill was at its steepest, the road parted abruptly right and left; there was a gate her, and Louise came out of the fiold.
One of the roads led uphill to la Clorte; the other followed the circling, ever-mounting cliffe between the bay of Trestranu and Plonians ch. A few steps along the road on the left, took Louise to a small cottage almost hidden behind its garden fence of dead gurse,
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out again, with someting rolled up in a cabbage. leat, and handed it to her companion..
Moù Dien! she is kind as ever," he ex- claimed.Heaven be her boil, there is no one like her; how she keeps her looks,"
She broke into his praises:
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Charlot scowled and looked very ugly.
A curse on all women," he muttered, "the beat of 'em are tyrants, I've courted her this your past, and I'm no nearer than when I began. Women love to chatter, and yet they, grudgan nun the use of his tongue."
He went on a few steps, then stopped, and looked into his cabbage-leaf. "A" he
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