. Complete works. With illus. by the author and introductory notes setting forth the history of the several works by Horace E. Scudder . , Avhoat sight of it kisses the superscription, and then, in ananguish of love, and joy, and grief, falls on the neck of thekind Avoman, Avho consoles her in her misery. AVhose Avrit-ing is it Charlotte kisses ? Can you guess by any means ?Upon my Avord, Madame Smolensk, I never recommendladies to take daughters to your boarding-house. And Ilike you so much, I Avould not tell of you, but you knowthe house is shut up this many a long day. Oh! the yearsslip aAv
. Complete works. With illus. by the author and introductory notes setting forth the history of the several works by Horace E. Scudder . , Avhoat sight of it kisses the superscription, and then, in ananguish of love, and joy, and grief, falls on the neck of thekind Avoman, Avho consoles her in her misery. AVhose Avrit-ing is it Charlotte kisses ? Can you guess by any means ?Upon my Avord, Madame Smolensk, I never recommendladies to take daughters to your boarding-house. And Ilike you so much, I Avould not tell of you, but you knowthe house is shut up this many a long day. Oh! the yearsslip aAvay fugacious ; and the grass has grown over graves;and many and many joys and sorrows have been born andhave died since then for Charlotte and Philip: but thatgrief aches still in their bosoms at times; and that sorroAVthrobs at Charlottes heart again whenever she looks at alittle yellow letter in her trinket-box: and she says to herchildren, Papa wrote that to me before we Avere married,my dears. There are scarcely half a dozen Avords in thelittle letter, I believe; and tAVO of them are for ever. ON HIS WA Y TTTROTTGn TUF. I could draw a ground-plan of Madames house in theChamps Elysees if I liked, for has not Philip shown methe place and described it to me many times ? In front,and facing the road and garden, were Madames room andthe salon; to the back was the salle-a-manger; and a stair 36 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ran up the house (where the dishes iised to be Laid duringdinner-time, and where IMoira and Macgrigor fingered themeats and puddings). Mrs. General Bajaiess rooms wereon the first floor, looking on the Champs Elysees, and intothe garden-court of the house below. And on this day, asthe dinner was necessarily short (owing to unhappy cir-cumstances), and the gentlemen were left alone glumlydrinking their wine or grog, and Mrs. Baynes had gone up-stairs to her own apartment, had slapped her boys andAvas looking out of window — was it not provoking that ofall
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