But, as they would put it in Ireland, these lucky, fresh-
faced youngsters of to-day have their futures in front of them,
not behind them. Then it is that Howson's words, wedded to John
Farmer's haunting refrain, come back to the mind--
"Yet the time may come as the years go by,
When your heart will thrill
At the thought of 'The Hill'
And the day that you came, so strange and shy."
CHAPTER V
Mme. Ducros--A Southern French country town--"Tartarin de
Tarascon"--His prototypes at Nyons--M. Sisteron the roysterer--The
Southern French--An octogenarian pesteur--French industry--"Bone-
shakers"--A wonderful "Cordon-bleu"--"Slop-basin"--French legal
procedure--The bons-vivants--The merry French judges--La gaiete
francaise--Delightful excursions--Some sleepy old towns--Orange
and Avignon--M. Thiers' ingenious cousin--Possibilities--French
political situation in 1874--The Comte de Chambord--Some French
characteristics--High intellectual level--Three days in a Trappist
Monastery--Details of life there--The Arian heresy--Silkworm
culture--Tendencies of French to complicate details--Some
examples--Cicadas in London.
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