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Show THEY SPOi FRENCH. But Unfortunately For the Ladies Some of Their Fellow Travelers Sid Also. YOU SHOULD NOT BE TOO KNOWING. It Sometimes Leads to Unpleasant Predio-ments Predio-ments and Causes One to Feel Their Own Smallness. A beanfiftd example of the sublime faith soma people have in the superiority of their attainments over those of the wjopleby whom they are surrounded, jndftf the confusion which occasionally ensues when it transpires that such faith I been misplaced, was presented in a railway car recently. A lady and gentleman, the epic-and-jpan newness of whose apparel and belongings be-longings and the flawlcssness of whose courtesy to each other bespoke their freshly wedded state, were speeding along in the express from Boston. At one of the stations they alighted and presently returned, accompanied by a young lady who was evidently the sister of the bride. During their brief absence their places had been taken by new coiners and it was necessary for the party to distribute itself through the car. Thesisters pouted a little at being separateioy the aisle, and craned their heads across to whisper to each other. They seemed to have a great deal to jay, This was proved when they hit upon the happy expedient of conversing in French. From this time they sat comfortably erect and talked across in tones sufficiently loud to be easily heard above the noise of the train. Their French was not that of the salons. It had probably been acquired in the nursery from some voluble bonne. But it proved all sufficient for the transmission transmis-sion of the most confidential tales of the young wife's brief matrimonal career. It transpired that she was on Iftr wedding wed-ding journey, and not having seen her sister Bince tho day when she started out in a rain storm of rice and slippers she had much to impart, and the particulars were thrilling. They talked in the somewhat some-what thin, fine voices which are characteristic charac-teristic of "Down east" maidens, and which penetrate like a child's treble. When an occasional stop was made they were too interested to pause, and did not even lower their tones, they felt so sure everybody else in the car could only understand United States. The wife had disclosed the whole history up to the present time when the train came to a stop in the Grand Central depot. Then in the sudden hush a gentleman and lady who had been sitting near by exchanged ex-changed a few sentences relative to their luggage and plans and spoke in correct and fluent French. As their accents fell upon the ears of the authors of les confidences confi-dences the effect was marvelous, and the girls turned and fled like the Assyrian host, leaving their belongings to be collected col-lected by the young husband, who had understood nothing and seemed wholly mystified. New Yerk World. |