insolent tone."

"Then, since Mademoiselle wills it so, I shall finish
the very truthful and complimentary paragraph without
further comment."

"Such a bear garden as that dance was; yet I somewhat
enjoyed the languishing glances of the bright-eyed
damsels. But, ugh! the savages never can be made to
wash themselves. When the dance had continued for
three or four hours, the dancers began to pair off
like pigeons and in each nook you could observe a
half-breed and his girl, sometimes the demoiselle
nursing her beau with arms about his neck, or _vice
versa_. ... The women are all slatterns, and as a rule
they exhibit about as much morality as is found among
the female elk of the prairies. A white man here who
is at all successful in winning female attention,
needs but to whistle, or to raise his finger, to have
half a dozen of the dusky beauties running after him.
While I write this letter I see two maidens passing
under my window. I no longer take pride or fun in the
matter. To me they have become a nuisance."




CHAPTER VI.

"Now, Monsieur," said M. Riel, folding his newspaper slip