Montreux, peint par JHardwicke Lewis & May Hardwicke Lewis; décrit par Francis Gribble . aus. C'est une lettre qui illumine la thésitation, non seulement à cause des nouveaux faits qui se divulgue, mais aussi à cause de la lumière qu'elle jette inci-dently sur le caractère de l'écrivain. C'était un bon homme, un très bon homme, un homme qui a toujours fait son devoir, et parfois moréque son devoir, dans l'état de vie auquel il a été appelé. Dans le cas des colonies, il a appearsto s'est comporté le plus avec la main. Il a pris l'hisfemme d'une école d'embarquement pour l'épouser, et a payé toutes ses factures, qui se sont élevées à un f

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Montreux, painted by JHardwicke Lewis & May Hardwicke Lewis; described by Francis Gribble . aus. It is a letter which illuminates thesituation, not only because of the new facts which itdiscloses, but also because of the light which it inci-dentally sheds upon the character of the writer. He was a good man, a very good man; a manwho always did his duty—and sometimes morethan his duty—in the state of life to which he wascalled. In the matter of settlements he appearsto have behaved most handsomely. He took hiswife from a boarding-school to marry her, andpaid all her bills, which amounted to a figure whichmay well have frightened him when he reflectedthat, for the future, she would have an impliedauthority to pledge his credit. What with theaccounts of the dressmaker, the glover, the boot-maker, and the necessity of replacing a foot-warmerbelonging to the head mistress which Mademoisellede la Tour had broken, the total was no less than3, 068 florins. But M. de Warens paid up like alover, and took a receipt, and kept it, like a manof business. THE FOUNTAIN IN VEYTAUX VILLAGE. MADAME DE WARENS 75 So far so good. M. de Warens had establishedan indisputable claim to his wifes gratitude. Butgratitude is not quite the same thing as love; andit is impossible to prove that INI. de Warens waslovable. He was just, and stern, and stubbornlyreligious ; his consciousness of his own respectabilityand piety illuminates the whole of his long apology ;but there is nothing in it, from beginning to end, to suggest a reason why a young woman of brightand animated disposition should have preferred himto other men, equally pious and respectable. Sohis wife, whose disposition was certainly brightand animated, in spite of her Pietist training, became bored, and sought distraction. Somewomen, in the circumstances, would have soughtdistraction with lovers, others with religion; Madamede Warens sought it in commercial enterprise. In1725—when she was twenty-six years of age—shedecided to st

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