Copyright 1904 by G. Barrie & Sons
THE MILKMAID’S WEDDING
Denise, beaming with love and happiness, embellishing by her charms andher grace the modest costume she had selected, was led to the altar bythe man she loved.
All the people of the village assembled to see the little milkmaidmarried.
NOVELS
BY
Paul de Kock
VOLUME XX
THE MILKMAID
OF
MONTFERMEIL
THE JEFFERSON PRESS
BOSTON NEW YORK
Copyrighted, 1903-1904, by G. B. & Sons.
THE MILKMAID OF MONTFERMEIL
CONTENTS
I
II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX.
I
A CONVERSATION IN A CABRIOLET
“For you can’t go on like this forever, lieutenant—you must agree tothat. The great Turenne didn’t fight ten battles at once and didn’tcarry on six intrigues on the same day.”
“No, my dear Bertrand, but Cæsar dictated four letters at once in fourdifferent languages, and Pico de la Mirandola boasted that he wasfamiliar with and could talk de omni re scibili——”
“I beg pardon, lieutenant, I don’t know Latin.”
“That means that he claimed to know all languages, to have gone to thebottom of all the sciences, to be able to refute a