8/19 When she is out with me on a Sunday afternoon she has chat enough. By St.James, she'll talk for two hours without stopping when I'm so out of breath with the hill that I haven't a word.' 'I don't doubt she can talk.' 'That she can; and manage a house better than any girl I ever saw. Madame Voss says that neither you nor she can afford to part with her.' Michel Voss was silent for a moment. It was dusk, and no one could see him as he brushed a tear from each eye with the back of his hand. 'I'll tell you what, Urmand,--it will break my heart to lose her. |