Numa Roumestan

Copyright, 1898, by Little Brown & C o . Goupil & C o . Paris
“‘ Qué, Valmajour! suppose you play something for the pleasure of the pretty lady. ’”
Drawn by Adrien Moreau. Photogravured by Goupil & Co.
Numa Roumestan. Frontispiece.
BY ALPHONSE DAUDET
TRANSLATED BY CHARLES DE KAY
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1899, 1900 , By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
NUMA ROUMESTAN.
That Sunday—it was a scorching hot Sunday in July at the time of the yearly competitions for the department—there was a great open-air festival held in the ancient amphitheatre of Aps in Provence. All the town was there—the weavers from the New Road, the aristocrats of the Calade quarter, and some people even came all the way from Beaucaire.