Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — Pleasant Company. [ARTICLE]

Pleasant Company.

An Englishman relates that he one day called to see the elder Dumas, and Inquired of the servant, “Is Monsieur at home?’ “He is in his study, Monsieur; Monsieur can go in.’’ At that moment he heard a loud burst of laughter from the inner apartment, so he said he would wait till Monsieur’s visitors were gone. “Monsieur has no visLors; he is working,” replied the servant. “M. Dumas often laughs like that at his work.” It was true enough; the novelist was alone, or rather in company with one of his characters. He was simply roaring.