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"You had the habitude formerly, I suppose?. Now answer me in your mother-tongue."
"Yes, sir, I spoke the English more than the French when I was a child."
"Why do you not speak it now?"
"Because I have no English friends."
"You live with your father, I suppose?"
"My father is dead."
"You have brothers and sisters?"
"Not one."
"Do you live alone?"
"No—I have an aunt—ma tante Julienne."
"Your father's sister?"
"Justement, monsieur."
"Is that English?"
"No—but I forget—"
"For which, mademoiselle, if you were a child I should certainly devise some slight punishment; at your age—you must be two or three and twenty, I should think?"
