50 STRAY- AW AYS 



probably remembers it well; many of the ears now 

 strained to catch the witticisms of Guignol must have 

 heard the fusillade, and worse things than it. It is 

 incredible. The faces of the children, sailing boats 

 in the pond below, are not more concentrated on the 

 present than those of their elders, not more unconscious 

 of a past ; the Luxembourg hawthorns and chestnuts 

 have infinitely more suggestion about them of 

 recollecting, of understanding. 



Martin Ross. 



January 1895. 



