Page 61 (1/1)

"Certainly, uncle"

"Come on, then nephew, quick, ain!"

And really Uncle Mouillard did look quite young, alure, and the countrified cut of his coat, made all who passed him turn to stare, accustomed as Parisians are to curiosities He tapped the wood pavement with his stick, admired the effects of Wallace's philanthropy, stopped before the enarew enthusiastic over the traffic in the Rue de Vaugirard

The dinner was capital--just the kind a generous uncle will give to a bla affection for chain with He drank the whole of one and half of the other, eating in proportion, and talked unceasingly and positively at the top of his voice, as his as He told me the story of two of his best actions this year, a judicial separation-- in judicial separations--and the abduction of a minor At first I looked out for personal allusions But no, he told the story froment reserved, just as he would have told the story of Helen and Paris, if he had been employed in that well-known case Not a word aboutcame but the successive steps in the action

After the ice, M Mouillard called for a cigar

"Waiter, what cigars have you got?"

"Londres, conchas, regalias, cacadores, partagas, esceptionales Which would you like, sir?"

"Da one that will take some time to smoke"

Emile displayed at the botto a distaff with a straw through the middle, doubtless some relic of the last International Exhibition, abandoned by all, like the Great Eastern, on account of its dimensions My uncle seized it, stuck it in the ahted it, and under the pretext that you et the tobacco to burn evenly, went out trailing behind hiunboat at full speed

We "did" the arcades round the Odeon, wherethe books for sale He took them all up one after another, froave a glance at the author's na to me with: "You know that writer?"

"Why, yes, uncle"