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Show Quite a Freak of Sentiment. M. A. Hrlsson tells an nncrdoto In one of the scries of spirited nrtlcles which appear ln the Temps under the heading of 'Promenades et Visiles" A certain well-known Trenchman, an octogenarian, spent most of his time In his )ounger da)S hunting up valuable valua-ble books among thc second-hand book-tores In the neighborhood of the Pla. bt Michel and the Place Dauphin Dau-phin He rarely came across 11 "find," but his fervor never aim ted He was a bichclor, mil for a housekeeper had nn extremely plain woman, who howevei, how-evei, had caught from her master thc taste for old books und occasionally came, home with an armful when she had been marketing One day the housekeeper appeared with a parcel of books wrapped In paper pa-per and naked her master to look nt them. Among the rubbish was a small volume bound In red morocco 'What havo ou pild for this?' the mater gasped after looking at the title page ' Thlrt) sous for the lot," the servant replied Bur, m) good woman, this book alone Is worth 10 000 francs," the bibliomaniac bibli-omaniac went on, nnd the moment after af-ter regretted the unwise speech. The womnn pricked up her ears, nnl In vain did the master try lo recall his remark ' I II give you 100 francs for It," he snl I ' Hut memslcur said Just now It was woith 10 000" ' I II glvo )ou 600" "No no " ' Seven hundred and fifty." But It was no use, and to make a long story short, Ihe master married the bonne In order to obtain the first edition of the Heptameron ' (1559) By this time, says M Brlsson the wife has gone to a better world, but the little lit-tle red volume remains with hlin New York Post. |