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Show totiii Imam 136 FLEU R-DE-LIS PRlNCESS MARY‘S GIFT BOOK shoulderto shoulder with him. He had now his passionate devotion to 111s child : but 111 cold and weariness. in hunger and triendlessiicss ill~ tortune and despair. would love be able to keep itsell' pure noble scll' , _ )~ 11 ., ... y . ‘ ‘1 denying. hopeful .' HIGH "([0 ways of "lorgctting. ot ‘ dulhnn' one‘s.lyself' at blotting out memory for hours together. a i l .1115 wants were cmnparatively simple; but. since he could not realise them. why not give up the struggle? [to did not wish for a carriage or a palace: he Wished to give up his vagrant lite for some labour by which he could maintain himself and give his child ‘1 start towards honest womanhood. That was not extravagant 1 v ‘ . . . . ‘ 1 ‘surely . _ 9 and it' (10d \veie indeed 111 1115‘ heaven. and all were Indeed right with the Vt oi lchit seeilned to Pierre that it was none too much to ask Much e t1nis k ied . "1.0V . "168 Selling v ' Dieam. " and 1 1 i . " Boulanger began the 1 ( 1 . 1_ young gii of eighteen or nineteen, with an open book in ‘ietil lttlld,"]01116d the children at the window. She had a beautit'ul ia‘icitseiious face. and it‘ln‘Ightened into amusement. and then into fiiilnteslnelss. as she caught sight of the quaint vehicle, of the child under Tic atdu umbrella-and ot the empty sleeve of the musician. Pierre flow-1" on niechaiii'ally: it was "I dreamt that I dwelt in Marble 1 s no". and he hoped that a dime would be Huno‘ from the wi 1d ' before t} ‘ . hek came to " \‘V'tl' i. \ ' . 1‘1111 a, .Iile ‘ ' ‘ ' l‘own," n (1t' ludinboro 0" for thatI was it "(a est part of his repertOIre. 'l‘he (rrou) t'll 't‘ "l ‘ l ' window , .and tl 1e1 ciisis " (on ' l d not be delayed. bThe I )l'lllO 51 'erk S (l) 1da tl At' tlfi 0‘1 "B several1‘ bars4‘.stoned ll" ‘ l repeated, wheezed and ant I 1 returned I] t 11011,,1 to the ft on anger ilarch. then bounded again to "Edinboro' 'l‘own " and -1er.~v';'*'~1‘> into EV: 1(1)::1etgettlual attempts~ to finish " ' made an asthmatic dashi it, (vi/unifor 1:} 68-10. Jtmlc‘ lierre looked anxiously under the 110171?- d .1' vi . 1 itsent u butler; but the children shrieked with renewed L 1g1t, and the younU 0‘11‘l goina ‘LW‘ 7 t" ' appeared b t 1.'J} and10111 rive-way the (1‘Wlndmv. sh) .. 1 . running; ‘ 1. (1015i) . . . htl 1e, d. .'slin' "in,3 on l 101‘ Jdt‘ IH'CHCIIUV i" k et‘ as e came. She appioaehed the cdrre ot the side-walk t} ' tl 3" " ' ‘1 )iu"about {‘ .11.the panotan aa brief group )i‘ ‘ d ,atter ' ' ' "interview ' ‘ with , )1Pierre, late she "in left "O . I It 0 t.5161 eidwith him, and went upstairs to her mother .ane 011 w-is sessed '1 r‘ ‘ anxiety of the ormost 1 7‘ e;t1~;01i211‘6dt ‘ ' to her tamily. . She was posthey "me 1) '. I. . inary ideas, and no one could tell whence _ . 1 ‘5 , uness became infected b y tl 1cm fashion . . } sie . _ 111 some mysterious '1 ' ' " ‘l ‘ , them i], atl one . l is . . n, microbes'. at all ev*en t's, sie ‘l 1 had never inherited i _introduced 1 1eto egitimate way. society but _ l At I)re" sen t , it ' is " true, she had not been itself ""1" t . . un ass a great change 0t heart should make ("iien a ten months her. set. and no111source 1' "l ,.she th'ieaelniu 't .1 to be no ornament to . o leC to an ambitious mother. 137 " Please look out of the window, mama." she said, bringing a breath of raw air into her mother's flower-scented sitting-room. Mrs. Gordon rose languidly, her tea-gown trailing behind her. " \Vhat is it? Anything,r more than an organ-grinder who has been rasping my nerves for five minutes? Oh, I see what you mean; what an extraordinary combination a child in one end of the machine! 'l‘ell Hcloise to give the man a dime, dear." "I have given him a quarter myself, and have had a little talk with him: he is quite different from the ordinary orgairgrinder. mama." "()h, of course," said Mrs. Gordon good-naturedly: "all your him." geese are swans, dear: a dime was quite enough for " But he has only one arm, you see, mama." tricks of the " Of course, they never have; that is one of the the coat trade. They bind one arm down to the side. and then slip the left sleeve over it. If you notice the man tomorrow he will have it is more hanging empty, and be playing with the right arm; effective." "I'm sure there is no deception in this case, mama." take olt'his have it your own way, child: but pray don‘t " \Vell, dreadful disease. It, coat to investigate. or you‘ll be catching some be so odiously dirty, always should people poor that strange 111 does see nothing." when water costs Her name baby. " This man is as clean as possible. and so is the is Fleur-de-lis ; is it not quaint ? " they are. "Just what I should expect: the, dirtier and commoner children. I their give they names the are fanciful and the more regal and of garlic. like the l'ansii-s suppose your Fleur-debs i s redolent Violets of her class. ' " No, she is not. is almost She is as sweet as a rose ; but her l'ace , . about 11 1 her les trund he it t expec man the can " Of course : what enlist public sympathy.' I this weather? But] suppose he does it to obnomous way of getting wonder why foreigners choose this particularly blue with cold." they go about With a decrepit old a living; and. if they must do it, why instrument like that." . cannot‘ afford to rent a better " Yes, his piano is very old, but he had not the He said, 111 his broken English, "I. one just at present. ma mscl'le; it was then I "(,‘oiiii'ades," neither Boulanger," " Marche not now, 1111111 "1111/ it is that l have had what you call had luck, and allow her " Ta~ra-ra-iboom-de-ay." ' And, as for the child. he does not |