Show A Ayi VICTOR 0 1 jo W the 41 poet his gon son in iii law the children the gat cat the hunt unto and the carvings Ca ivines while M lockroy son soc in ill law of the patr vlad was tattling rattling along in lively conversation held at the sanio time with half a dozen people two or I 1 three tree fr french gentlemen entered the room and presently little groups were formed when I 1 I 1 found myself tete a tete with victor on oil my my way to the house I 1 had prepared S a beautiful speech in my illy best french and was burning to get rid of it so now conic come the chance to fire it olt off certain mis inis bivings eisinga lad 11 iscil in ill my illy allind lest I 1 be unequal to the lie opportunity port unity and I 1 oil only or A too distinctly that when heine first met geothe all lie he could find to say was that the be plums clunis between jelin and weimar were ivere very sweet 1 I however hau had a grent great advantage oer heine in not being a poet and probably victor hugo waz waa not so overwhelming overwhelming iu in appearance us its the writer of faust at till all events when I 1 was taken by the inn arm an and led to tile hie other oilier cud cod ot of the room to look at a picture I 1 summoned all my available aplomb aplon ib I 1 suid to bashfulness ful ness get thee behind me and opened upon victor in ili rather ex igent phrase I 1 told him what a cc tore upon modern french litera literature turp had iid about liim him in an all address to my lay class at al tile sity mid lind lie appeared very pleased tit at a reference in which lie was compared at one time to hurgot nid and at another to ire fe deemed deeply interested when I 1 said that the ito tories rips of if jelin jr ain valjean Fi fontine ntine and M biton anne hal had first startled me tito nto a serious consideration of bunian liin nin nicely and liti lilan duties N gilld lie ile laughed heartily heir tily when I 1 told ili libin ili that li iving read lei lea Travail leurs de la mer at the seide sei de I 1 lind 1110 to give up saltwater Lit liing my iny principal delight in life froni from a paralyzing tei bior of the devil lish I 1 halted tor for it ft word which lie supplied and A M my lily address wm was really a 1 continuous eulogy litt lowd by tit an over overgrown rov ii boy who believed every wort word alic plic he said the old gentleman seemed disappointed when my luly foreign language gave out md and his attitude reminded one of oliver akina a kina for more lie ile was sufficiently plea ed zed it lu look several times in the direction of his hii son in law who alio at the mention of it ante joined him in ill expressing gratification through the medium of ea c es and shoulders tile reply was faltering and deliberate interspersed with english ards V ads ivelich it were ere more difficult to understand as M pronounced by hugo then the hie rench french ones lf he congratulated me inc upon tit my knowledge le ge of his language at which I 1 f falt it my it ly boots blushing and stated that lie coo could never learn auy any language an but his own lie he spoke of tennyson and ireland and asked if nil all irishmen nere six six feet high I 1 I 1 replied that tipperary was famous for a population of which the smallest male unit would be half a foot taller than porthos Por thoa athos or the invulnerable darta guan ile ho broke into hito broad laughter berat at this thia point and encouraged me lite to proceed which was ciby caby for iny ani fellow with sense sene of humor enough to appreciate the lite fun full of chaffing victor ilu hugo 0 Is As that great arc it man mail did not bozes possess the lie critical historic sense to any great extent my narratives naira tives of great briglin Bri Brit tiiu Lin were nvere molded after the mail manner of froude fronde not hallam pacts facts being only made for slaves slavca I 1 dealt largely bargel y in color and we tie had biad a 0 good time lime this coji conversation listed lasted more inore than an all hour and durin during that period I 1 observed the poet very closely his ha short gr gray ay hair and bushy eyebrows stood fiercely on oil end alid ohp large piercing brown if ow eyes looked clear clar through gli eulue mine il I 1 felt tl bliem le 1 I buguing holes in ill tho the nek ick of my lily licad head the noss ilose was rt 1 it ut nod and fleshy lleslie and the com alexio wonderfully clear claar and dreili for a it in it ii of nearly eighty HP stood tit clr entire time now and then taking a turn around the table with deep in the side pocket of a short black ribbed silk bilk coit A luck silk neck cloth wn wai folded negligently under ol 01 i board cil d collar which rippled down over e the I 1 haac seen ell tell in ill the me of walt valt whitman in philadelphia and in victor hugo huge in guernsey anil botic ed that a unit unity I 1 of tile the hinitt consisted in ill the stir chlois collar victor hugos os ca cici ci inke interested rested niu lite more inore than nil any other of liis extein nal the they tt ere very penetrating and very sad and honest is as those 1 ol 01 I a cow thau which I 1 lean call concel no higher compliment there was no MO humor in them ilicin and alie he very pupils appeared arp app eared earcill to lie buried in ill e ago I 1 6 eisin hi hugo WAS Ir ok oking dij ill in my lily direction I 1 seemed to hear 1 liis eyes oves ny ay 11 i N victor I 1 actor ilo hugo 0 who bave li abc taken coll 1011 i into I 1 ito my lily in ill hei help ic iii 1 to rt run ili tile ic oil under d er pl I 1 the control contro I 1 of france 1111 looking nl at you oil for a moita alyo you alepas arc sable but tit don t forget that 3 you ou ire arc in ill lore vilce or of a god I 1 the rhe peculiarity arity of all this egotism 0 was ivas that it rave aye no offe ou eaise I 1 ISO it was oil all pardonable pardon lovable oue on remembered remember cil that 1 with all 10 le 4 self gelf coll selo les lea miserable would lie er hat anc e been Iv written As SUCIL thought acre ere pissing pis through my loy alliod a i joor door of the salon ira was I 1 b anaed open und two children c little botia ding into the loom oni one ot of them thell a litt gill held a cit cat in ill hw her at nun just atud copped it promptly aly upon the cat carpet I 1 ulic cat rail r in nil victor ilu hugo 0 O who 1010 stopped talking abild icil then thell un 0 ed on oil her mad career ell claim ira and tables between lite boots boot or f thi bi big ou tho the hearth rug tua ri right lit round i lie iio circle oi of I lai liets liis ali ith tife the chilgren in full tilt after lier her jnet clien the hunt flout liml had monopolized till all attention the rat cat junille 1 out tilt the I 1 anil ill incle ull off thin tigh tit alii t into the night tin 11 11 iia ay 13 c called jumping tile lie pl t burst bunt out laughing tile ladief mulled d and the vi visitors ceic thankful taic 1 ie chil areu r I 1 ahrn n came clain over cover to their grandfather who them to nie they blurt alv belil 12 U t liura clabert tt to th tha 4 table beai near where ire we yere wen standing and proceed etl to kneel upon t atheni ax they then placed their elbows i upon the thale and buried their bend ai in el little made as I 1 could sec of u very pretty little halub they listened or pretended to listen aud and I 1 lia had 1 I timp to notice the f ivond favored youngsters for hall been writt written ert IL baart Aart detre grandpere grand peria 1 both children were very dark swart liy liv in fact it but 0 t they were bright and as I 1 ti aleve inuit children would be it if only they had the proper ort bort of grandfathers ilic boy georges about 12 years old was wa dressed in highland Ilig liland cos costume tunic and nit that dress showed off on to excellent adv advantage antaL am ili line fine figure e 1 and I lid sturdy limbia when I 1 c caina line to know liim him we well I 1 I 1 I 1 found that liis his igind wis MIS as as ai ili liis limbs ile he waa avas the proper sort of a boy ile he didn dian t know anything at all about books book st and more moi c lie lic mot didt care hut but lie knew eiery cery animal tin and ir leaf if and tree and fruit freiti and fish that con descended to grow drovon on or around tile island ile he also knew ever every street in paris aud lie could tell of lull breadth es escapes capes by 63 flood and field and street from lout boat and bulland J bus ills but jeannette wits was the of little girl girlhood hool I 1 bave for gottell all abut her dres except that she wore a tartan plaid suit I 1 ith a red sah falling failing the shoulder and knotted knoller nt at the side followed by splendid streamers of the sonic line hue which it were ere shown to fill e antal ill ili the hie quest of the cat it wo would give me ale greater plex mire to be able to describe jeannette wi 11 I 1 saw her then or as I 1 thought 0 I 1 sa saw AV than to wr write ditc itc ii A SUC C C SI allt 1111 ily tica novel of the buton boston now but I 1 shall lit L t her speak in action like HIP char autem of when mien the children hail fall licen been for a very little lima fine nl jilt the alic table I 1 went rou id and ami sat near theta gave aye nic me tile biography of her batand cat and georges commented with sonic asperity upon the dates number of kit kittene teng rita mice and saucers involved in it the nirra narrative tive of liis his sister then the boy grew tired of tile cat business atilt and andere wandered nn dere d oft off to tile ali other oilier visitors visitor while llie lite little 0 girl gill took me ly by the hand and showed tile ino all over tile house on oil one table she me ine tho the four beautiful ink standi with avith the lite names dumas george saudi and victor hugo co we ive alen then went upstairs to tile library where I 1 found 1 a I room more remarkable for its walla mills that its books on oil the iho oaken panch extending to lite alic ceiling here ere carved all sorts of inverted commonplaces pi sees tie A york work had evidently been done by sonic some person kilo was happier with will liis his intellect than with will his penknife the letters ll ler ere cru of sadly unequal lell length th ond anil the ling looked at firs alike like a desecration of the handsome panels but tins this oak like tile alie fabled loal loa 1 conta contained ineil a preci precious jewel jenel in the odd sentences coned caned all about with the llie jackknife of victor hugo lite battle cry of lite romans rom ins vae Vii which milich gave aye pi peremptory to ap spare tre not men women or thil dich it was ref refreshing to filid victors hold inversion 1 vcr sion aloria gloria macies vae glory to the llie vanquished woe oc to no one I 1 another clumsy cat cailing ving to lo A aich jeanette called my by attention was GOI calon reste keste pour les seeming to mean that at the worst llie lie alar loschy of SULU a man as cato calo remains to comfort those whom life has clefe defeated led I 1 have forgotten of the other oilier interesting 0 maxims are now flow buried in ili roy my note book beoka but I 1 had a delightful 0 time discussing them willi my gray coin pinion who understood bothic 0 about such idiomatic carvings except that her grandfather grandfather 61 biad ad made then and therefore she loved to show them to her f i jeannette then took look gicinto into lite room which mary years before had icen been prepared for the reception of garibaldi on his expected return from rn england oland but bat as will be remembered the italian hero created such a republican furore in great britain that it was found expedient to smuggle 0 C liim him away from albione Alb ions sea gait effit L isle not r giving it in liim him the llie choice even of stopping slopping ro to bac liis his friend hugo at guernsey for farmere cuore than iban acara tile room had bad been waiting for him out lull garibaldi never cattle and the ilic room had bad never been disturbed it I 1 as 19 hung mith v alb purple velvet und mill till bedstead was tas draped some valuable lice orli I 1 as far ua taju its eight in ili goll gold 1 about the center of like ilic hax ki lioan l just over aver the llie pillows was a oak Iru ket on oil lyas a 1 I atil s lenail all carved in marli ju arble lf eliout flie size of 0 oil ni ordinary orilin iry inn 1 11 ll rg e g illi i thlen tit leeni le eni coned lie li I 1 ln en alli t 11 efort Jf ort la ali x M biti yiti riI fit ii ieli ii hiir s ile IH cinc of allu il lt upon ian I 1 upon lio another look tile nit up tip to lo ill 1 1 I ilmi II ieli is ii a species of I 1 sl labis case built on oil top op of tin tilt criminal nil this room ami its nio lite ao 0 o hite elial willi a pe HU c will pol pono it con vo u sit arz flon until mal day ex |