Claremont, and "though., aha writes 30 awasily 
and serenely about it, 1 oan see how aad- 
denad har winter has bean, I can't boar to 
think of her so uidsly agjfparatsd from her 
aon and his family. 1 doubt if we see 
them,while they are abroad,for 1 think,from 
what_Mr 3 . . Pease writes of their routs that 
they will not reaoh Paris until after we 
hive left, 
/ 
1 hope that Poincare's recent offer of 
a payment on the French debt pending the 
rat if 1 cat ion of t h © a o c o r d will convince 
the unconvinced at home that it—ia — ffbTard 
to have talked about France's "re p.u 1 i a t"i n"g~" 
her -debt. It is nothing short of a miracle 
/ 
that Poincare has wrought in French finan- 
033 ,but the suffering from the terribly 
heavy taxation is grsatj but the people ac¬ 
cept it, for they say, " li le fa at''." I 3 n- 
of a 
Mhasieur Da/riaa of the Fi¬ 
nance OoTumis 3 ion a great many months ago, 
the two concluding paragraphs of which,it 
sssja to me, express very well the French 
feeling. " 
You will notice that the name, of"Herjes 
