Madame Chrysantheme -- Complete

ughfare; people had gathered around her to listen to her singing, and we thre

stuck her chin into her neck, in order to draw deeper notes from the furthermost recesses of her body; and succeeded in bringing forth a great, hoarse voice-a voice that might have bel

indignant gla

oice of a--" (words failed him, in his a

ened by this little being, and des

e I had induced him to come out in a straw hat

emarkably well, Yves,

u. For my part, I think it

priests; the principal object of interest of the procession, the corpse, comes last, laid in a sort of little closed palanquin, which is daintily pretty. This is followed by a band of mousmes, hiding their laughing faces beneath a kind of veil, and carry

em room. Chrysantheme all at once assumes a suitable air of g

, it is death t

the fact, so little does

mbs. There the poor fellow will be laid at rest, with his palanquin above him, and his vases and hi

ing, half snivelling, and tomorr