Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various
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the least, and the two accosted each other with that easy facility of
which the French people have the secret. Each presented the other with a hand and a frank smile. [Illustration: FIDELITY.] Joliet, whom I have erred perhaps in comparing to Democritus, was nevertheless a laugher and a philosopher. But his grand ha-ha! usually infectious, was not shared on this occasion. The wanderer could not show much merriment. A sewing-woman with a capacity for embroidery, her needle had given her support, but now a sudden warning of paralysis, and symptoms of cholera added to that, had driven her almost to despair. She was without home, friend or profession. [Illustration: A LITTLE VISITOR.] Joliet set her incontinently on horseback, and walked by her side to a good village curé's two miles off--the same who had assisted him to his first communion, and for whom he subsequently became a beadle. The kind priest opened his arms to the man, his heart to the woman, his stable to the horse. For his second patient my Bohemian set in motion all his stock of curative ideas. In a month she was well, and the curé no longer had three pensioners, for of two of them he made one. Two poverties added may make a competence. Monsieur and Madame Joliet were good and willing. The man began to wear a strange not unbecoming air of solidity and good morals. The girls now saluted him respectfully when he passed through a village. One thing, however, in the midst of his proud honeymoon perplexed him |
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