there is no talking with noun substantives only.

"Ah! mon Dieu! il faut envoyer pour Monsieur de Fontanges," cried the
lady; "va le chercher, Louise."

Monsieur de Fontanges soon made his appearance, when the lady explained
to him their dilemma, and requested his assistance. Monsieur de
Fontanges laughed, and explained to Newton, and then, by means of his
interpretation, connected sentences were made, according to the fancy of
the lady, some of which were the cause of great merriment. After an
hour, the gentlemen made their bows.

"I think," observed Monsieur de Fontanges, as they walked away, "that if
you really are as anxious to learn our language as madame is to teach
you, you had better come to me every morning for an hour. I shall have
great pleasure in giving you any assistance in my power, and I trust
that in a very short time that, with a little study of the grammar and
dictionary, you will be able to hold a conversation with Madame de
Fontanges, or even with her dark-complexioned page."

Newton expressed his acknowledgments, and the next day he received his
first lesson; after which he was summoned to support the theory by
practice in the boudoir of Madame de Fontanges. It is hardly necessary
to observe that each day increased the facility of communication.

For three months Newton was domiciled with Monsieur and Madame
Fontanges, both of whom had gradually formed such an attachment to him,
that the idea of parting never entered their head. He was now a very
tolerable French scholar, and his narratives and adventures were to his
benefactors a source of amusement, which amply repaid them for the
trouble and kindness which they had shown to him. Newton was, in fact,
a general favourite with every one on the plantation, from the highest
to the lowest; and his presence received the same smile of welcome at
the cottage of the slave, as at the boudoir of Madame de Fontanges.

Whatever may have been the result of Newton's observations relative to
slavery in the English colonies, his feelings of dislike insensibly wore
away during his residence at Lieu Desiree; there he was at least
convinced that a slave might be perfectly happy. It must be
acknowledged that the French have invariably proved the kindest and most
considerate of masters, and the state of bondage is much mitigated in
the islands which appertain to that nation. The reason is obvious: in
France, there is a _bonhommie_, a degree of equality es