“ Voyez-vous !” cried she, “ comme elle est propre, cette demoiselle Lucie? Vous aimez done cette allée , Meess?” 40

“Yes,” I said, “it is quiet and shady.”

“ C’est juste ,” 41 cried she with an air of bonté ; and she kindly recommended me to confine myself to it as much as I chose, saying, that as I was not charged with the surveillance, I need not trouble myself to walk with the pupils: only I might permit her children to come there, to talk English with me.