. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Gergy. good repair. The appearance of such a village, from a distance,is usually that of a thin line of white houses stretching on thegreen plain like an encampment, and crowned by the inevitablechurch steeple. One of them, Verjux, is connected with aromantic page of contemporary history. Some years ago a poorgirl left that village as a laundress, and finally found herself inParis, where she married a shopkeeper who afterwards died, andshenow keeps the A Village in the Plain. Well, you will think, my cor
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Gergy. good repair. The appearance of such a village, from a distance,is usually that of a thin line of white houses stretching on thegreen plain like an encampment, and crowned by the inevitablechurch steeple. One of them, Verjux, is connected with aromantic page of contemporary history. Some years ago a poorgirl left that village as a laundress, and finally found herself inParis, where she married a shopkeeper who afterwards died, andshenow keeps the A Village in the Plain. Well, you will think, my correspondent must be lamentablyat a loss for materials to tell me such a commonplace story asthat, and call it romantic ! Such things happen every , but there are small shopkeepers and great ones, just as 198 The Saone. there are little bankers and the Rothschilds. The younglaundress of Verjux is to-day the queen of all the shopkeepersin the world, and maintains her royalty after a fashion of herown. She is famous for three things—her wonderful businessabilities, her prodigious wealth, and her untiring kindness ofheart. Her shop is as vast as a Ministry of State, and probablyrequires at least as much ability for its government, her coffersare like a kings treasury, and her kindness rains benefits on allaround She revisits, occasionally, the banks of the Saone onher way to her Mediterranean villa. I wonder if the Parisianlady can recall to memory the hopes and anxieties of the pooryoung laundress of Verjux ! Like Verjux,
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