The Maids of Paradise
RNMENT I
," said the young girl, raising a rounde
d," said I, looki
will come to a thick
ou, made
e contour of her own lovely arm, "you must turn to the left, and
outstretched arm. "You ar
h stretched out all glittering with moist gr
ed up at me again, I felt her eyes on me for a m
s on the citadel of Strasbourg. It was so distant, so indistinct, that here in this peac
ficult to 22 believe that there is war any
the world," she sa
now it, m
ently,"
r, in detail, from the tips of her small wooden shoes to the scarlet velvet-banded skirt, then slowly upward, noting the laced bodice of v
tend turke
he replied, raising her ey
n you read Monsieur
ess, mo
are
ired in France?" sh
etend to be, an Alsa
e are my turke
our wooden shoes, and there also, mademoiselle, are your so
wise for a hus
have asked you a questio
across her shoulders with
are not a hussar, but an officer
MEADOW,' SAID