As for my smiles, if
you detect in them one trace of that sadness you talk about, I shall
grow as melancholy as yourself, and for as little cause. Come! you
shall confess before three days, brother, if you will only help me
to be gay, that your sister has the lightest heart in New France."
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHEERFUL YESTERDAYS AND CONFIDENT TO-MORROWS.
The ladies retired to their several rooms, and after a general
rearranging of toilets descended to the great parlor, where they
were joined by Messire La Lande, the cure of the parish, a
benevolent, rosy old priest, and several ladies from the
neighborhood, with two or three old gentlemen of a military air
and manner, retired officers of the army who enjoyed their pensions
and kept up their respectability at a cheaper rate in the country
than they could do in the city.
Felix Beaudoin had for the last two hours kept the cooks in hot
water. He was now superintending the laying of the table, resolved
that, notwithstanding his long absence from home, the dinner should
be a marvellous success.
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