| Vol. I.—No. 44. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
| Tuesday, August 31, 1880. | Copyright, 1880, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
CLAUDINE'S DOVES.
BY MRS. E. W. LATIMER.
A few days since, as I was driving in the Bois de Boulogne with afriend, a slender, sweet young girl was pointed out to me. She waswalking beside her mother, and there was a loving, tender look in herblue eyes,[Pg 634] a shrinking modesty in her deportment, which interested meat the first glance. She was apparently about fifteen. I observed to thefriend who pointed her out to me that she was fair, modest, and pretty."Yes," he replied, "and she is the heroine of a very pretty story."
Eight years ago her father and mother occupied an appartement, orflat, in the Rue de Rivoli. Part of the Rue de Rivoli has houses only onone side; the other is bordered by a high iron railing with giltspear-heads, inclosing the Garden of the Tuileries. At