quality other finer gentlemen they were specimens of the great conquering creature man whom all women must to please if they have the fortunate power � and each and all of them were plainly trying to please and not she them and so anne gazed at them with admiring awe waiting until there should come a pause in which she might presume to call her sister s attention to her presence but suddenly before she had indeed made up her mind how she might best announce herself there spoke behind her a voice of silver it is only said the voice who about them as they move the of the rose gardens of when you come to reign over us in town madam there will be no perfume in the mode but that of rose leaves and in all drawing rooms we shall breathe but their perfume and there at her side was bowing to her sister in and crimson with buttons on his velvet coat the beautiful being whose fair locks the sun had shone on the morning she had watched him ride away � the man whom the imperial beauty had dismissed and called a looked under her lashes toward him without turning but in so doing beheld anne standing in waiting a lady of quality a fine speech lost she said though twas well enough for the country sir john tis thrown away because tis not i who am scented with rose leaves but anne there whom you must not come hither sister and do not hide as if you were ashamed to be looked at and she drew her forward and there anne stood and all of them stared at her poor plain blushing face and the in and crimson bowed low as if she had been a that being his conqueror s way with gentle or simple maid wife or widow beauty or it was so with him always � he could never re the chance of to himself a woman s heart whether he wanted it or not and he had a charm a strange and wonderful one it could not be denied anne indeed as she made her courtesy to him and wondered if heaven had ever before made so fine a gentleman and so beautiful a being she went but seldom to this room again and when she went she stood always in the background far more in fear that would ad dress her than that she should meet with neglect she was used to neglect and to being regarded as a and aught else her all her pleasure was to hear what was said though twas not always of the finest wit and to watch a lady of quality c play the queen among her admirers and her slaves she would not have dared to speak of sir john frequently indeed she let fall his name but rarely but she learned a curious wit in to hear all things concerning him it was her habit to lead mistress mar to talking about him and relating long histories of his and his grace mistress knew many of them for a staid and prudent matron a lively interest in his ways it seemed truly � if one must believe her long stories that no under seventy had escaped weeping for him and losing rest and that ladies of all ranks had committed follies for his sake mistress anne having led her to this fruitful subject would sit and listen bending over her frame with strange emotions causing her virgin breast to ache with their swelling she would lie awake at night thinking in the dark with her heart beating surely surely there was no other man on earth who was so fitted to and to whom it was so suited that this should g ve her charms surely no woman however beautiful or proud could dismiss his suit when he pressed it and then poor woman her imagination strove to paint the splendor of their mutual love though of such love she knew so little but it must in be bliss a lady of quality and rapture and perchance was her humble thought she might see it from afar and hear of it and when they went to court and had a great mansion in town and many servants who needed a s eye upon their doings to restrain them from and riot might it not chance to be that if she served well now and had the courage to plead with her then she might be permitted to serve her there living quite apart in some quiet comer of the house and then her wild thoughts would go so far that she would dream � at her own boldness � of a child who might be born to them � a infant son and heir whose eyes might be great and blue and winning and his hair in great fair locks and whom she might nurse and tend and be a slave to � and love � and love � and love and who might end by knowing she was his tender servant always to be counted on and might look at her with that laughing glance and even love her too the night laid her commands upon mistress concerning the coming of sir john that matron after receiving them hurried to her other charges and full of talk and poured forth her wonder and admiration at length she is a wondrous lady she said she is indeed i it is not alone her beauty but her spirit a lady of quality and her wit mark you how she sees all things and lets none pass and can lay a plan as prudent as any lady old enough to be twice her mother she knows all the ways of the world of fashion and will guard herself against gossip in such a way that none can her high virtue her spirit is 