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and as she slightly raised it on The entrance of
her lover, he saw that her eyes were red and
swollen from excessive weeping. Having bow
ed to the gentlemen, and pressed the cold
trembling hand of Lcstelle TO his lips, 'he s't
down and waited calmly for NJ. Fradcl 10 COM
mence the business that had brought them tc.
gcther.
"You arc aware, NJ Aubcrtin," said the old
gentleman nj length, that my ward is very
young, and that in accepting you for her future
husband, she acts contrary to my wishes, and
demonstrates the natural wilfulness of her sex !!
"All this is not new TO me-" replied the young
man, while he stole an arch look at Lestellc,
who was watching him with breathless anxiety.
"Wc then, We may rs well come to The
point at once. Without my consent your mar
riage cannot take place until Msdemoiselle Yer
ncy is of age-a period Of which ii wants near
ly three years. and your signing this deed, by
which the whole of her property is settled una
enably upon herself, without giving any one
else power to draw or dispose of one sou Of it.
tho only condition upon which the hand OF
Lestclle shall be yours"
A crimson flush passed over the check and
brow of Claude Aubertin, and there was mo.
ments pause, during which the keen glance o'
the old man, the cold scrutiny of the notary, and
the pleading eyes of the anxious girl were fixed
eagerly upon his face. The struggle however
was but of short duration, and with acheerfu
smile upon his face, he held out his hand fnl
the paper, and glancing rapidly over its contents
instantly affixed his name. {" 1t is well" said NJ
Fradel complacenty. "Now Mademoisele."
The hand of the young girl tremblcd so vic.
lently that Aubcrtin was obliged to guide it
when the signature was at length completed she
flung herself upon his bosom, and wept long
and passonately- the notary was moved
into something like sympathy, and, gathering uE
his papers, hastened to follow his patron from
the room, and leave the lovers at all liberty tc
give vent TO their feelings but, regard for the
timid and weeping girl, who clung to him SC
fondly and impIoringly, subdued the offended
pride of Claude Auberlin, and had little Difficult
ty in soothing her fears, and winning back the
sunshine of her happy smiles.
few days after this they were married, ant
the three succeeding years which glided past &c
happily with them, are marked in characters o.
blood in their country'a annals. Now it wa
that the innate nobility of the mind asserted it
superiority over the mere hereditary nobility o
the name and staton-that the barriers of ran!
and aristocracy were beaten down, and mer
owned no limits to their own wild wills. Claude
Aubertin was revoutionist in the hest sens
of the word-his proud spirit had been stunf
by the worldly scorn by those whom he inward
ly despised but not for this did he turn upol
bis oppressors-not for any feeling safe the pur
and holy love of liberty9 and when that nam
became prostituted TO the very worst purpose
when il was made the watchward to crime mt
bloodshed-he yet clung to it as in his first hou
of youthful enthusiasm, and trusted every thin
to its power when the first intoxcatlon u
have passed away and he succeededs by IN ag
Of reason and nationality.
Lestcle loved her husband too we'll not t.
hare imbided his principles; and the costly 81