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"Why not to-day?"

"How so?"

"Let's catch theh

"Run after young girls at !"

We crossed the avenue, and plunged into the forest

Laility ana He still deserves it In twenty strides he leftoff with his cane the young shoots on the oaks, or turning his head to look at orse A startled pheasant brought him to a halt The bird rose under his feet and soared into the full light

"Isn't it beautiful?" said he "Look out, we ame We should come upon the path they took, about sixty yards ahead"

Fiveto reat beech

"Here they are"

Jeanne and M Charnot were seated on a fallen trunk beside the path, which here was alhs Their backs were toward us The old old-knobbed cane stuck into the ground beside hi out of a book which we could not see, while Jeanne, attentive,Her profile was outlined against a strip of clear sky The deep silence of the rapped us round, and we could hear the old scholar's voice; it just reached us