Froumois!"
"And you have yet, dame,--if I am a judge," replied Froumois,
glancing down with an air of gallantry.
"And you are accounted a judge--and ought to be a good one,
Froumois! A gentleman can't live at court as you have done, and
learn nothing of the points of a fine woman!" The good dame liked a
compliment as well as ever she had done at Lake Beauport in her hey-
day of youth and beauty.
"Why, no, dame," replied he; "one can't live at Court and learn
nothing! We study the points of fine women as we do fine statuary
in the gallery of the Louvre, only the living beauties will compel
us to see their best points if they have them!" M. Froumois looked
very critical as he took a pinch from the dame's box, which she held
out to him. Her hand and wrist were yet unexceptionable, as he
could not help remarking.
"But what think you, really, of our Quebec beauties? Are they not a
good imitation of Versailles?" asked the dame.
"A good imitation! They are the real porcelain! For beauty and
affability Versailles cannot exceed them.
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