Voila la difference!" added she,
repeating the refrain of a song very popular both in New France and
in Old at that period.
Le Gardeur did not comprehend her hesitation and tone. Said he,--
"Pierre is wonderfully changed since he and I wore the green sash of
the seminary. He is taller than I, wiser and better,--he was always
that,--but in heart the same generous, noble Pierre Philibert he was
when a boy. Voila la ressemblance!" added he, pulling her hair
archly as he repeated the antistrophe of the same ditty.
Amelie gave her brother a fond look, but she did not reply, except
by a tight pressure of the hand. The voices of the Chevalier La
Corne and the Lady de Tilly and Colonel Philibert were again heard
in animated conversation. "Come, brother, we will go now," said
she; and quick in executing any resolution she had formed, she took
the arm of her brother, swept with him down the broad stair, and
entered the drawing-room.
Philibert rose to his feet in admiration of the vision of loveliness
that suddenly beamed upon his eyes.
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