"But, oh! my God! my God! if we were only both young again!" She spoke with passionate hopelessness, and the tears dried in her eyes.
Later in the evening Mrs.Delilah Jones appeared at the French minister's ball.
"Upon the whole," said Mr.Ele to his partner, "I have never seen Mrs.
Jones so superb as she is to-night." She stood by the mantle, queen-like--so the representatives from several States remarked--and all the evening fresh comers offered homage.
"_Ma foi!_" said the old Brazilian ambassador, as he gazed at her through his eye-glass, and smacked his lips.
"_Tiens!_" responded the sexagenarian representative from Chili, half-closing one eye..