The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23

the thing could be entertained, or as
If had cause to fear the coxcornb On
the contrary, intend to teach him a
lesson. A little confinement viii cool
his temper You must give me a LETT
ter, my friend, and we Will clap him
IN the Bastille for a month or two.
Impossible, l said firmly. Quite
impossible, NJ. l. Marquis.
NJ. de SaintDnge looked at me-
EfroWning. ..Hew2' he said arroganrly-
Have my services earned no better
answer than that
You forget, replied Let me re-
mind you that less than a month ago
Mesmin, and at your instance refused
to accsde to NJ. de Cans request that
would confine him. You were then
all for non-interference, NJ de Saint
onge. and cannot blow hot and cold.
Besides to be plain with YOU" con-
this young fellow IS In a manner under
my protection, which renders it i1rlpos-
sible for me to move against him II
you like, however, viii speak to him. -
Speak to him. NJ de Saintouge
cried He was GREATNESS with rage
He could say no more. 1t may be inn
agined how rnpalatable my answer was
to him.
But was not disposed to endure his
presumption and ilI-tenper beyond q
certain point, and feeling no sympathy
with him in a difficulty which he had
brought upon himself by his spitefuI-
ness. answered him roundlys Yes
said, Il will speak to him il you
please. But not otherwise. can as
one"
But NJ. de Saintonge's chagrin and
rage at finding himself thus rebuffed,
In a quarter where his naughty temper
had led him to expect an easy complf-
ance, would not allow him to stoop to
my offer. He flung it away with express
sions of the utmost resentment. and
even IN the hearing Of my servants ut
tered SO many foolishly violent things
against me that had my discretion been
no greater than his must have taken
notice Of them. AS, however had
other and more important affairs upon
my hands and 1t has never been my
practice 10 humor such hot-heads By
placing myself on a level with them.
was content to leave HIS punishment to
ST .Mesmin, assured that in him M.
Saintonge would find an opponent
more courageous and not less stubborn
than himself.
The event bore me out, for within a
week NJ. de ST. Mesnin's pretensions
to the hand of MademoiselIe de Saint
onge shared with the Biron affair the
whose reputation and the care which
had been spent ON her breeding, no
less than her gifts Of person and char
acter, deserved a better fate. attained
in a moment a notoriety far from en-
vfable; rumor's hundred tongues aaleg-
ing, and probably with truth-for what
father can vie with gallant in maid,
ems eyes 2-that her inclinati0ns were
all on the side of the pretendsr at
any rate St MeSn1in had credit for
them; there was talk OF stolen meet
ings and bribed waiting woman; and
though such tales were probably as
false as those who gave them currency
were fair, they obtained credenee with
the thoughtless, and being repeated
from one to another in time reached
her fathers ears, and contributed with
St Mesmin's persecution to render him
almost beside himself
Doubtless with man of less d0gged
character, or one more amenabIe to
reason, the marquis would have known
how to deal; but the success which had
hitherto rewarded st. MeSnin's course
of action had confirmed the young man
in his belief that everything was to be-
won by courage; SO that the more the
marquis clustered and threatened the
more persistent the sutton showed him.
self. Wherever mademoiseIle's presence
was to be expected, st. Mesn1in ap-
peared, dressed in the extreme of the
fashion, and wearing either a favor
made of her colors or a glove which he
asserted that she had given him.
Throwing himself in her road on every
occasion, he expressed his passion by
the most eXtravagaT1t looks and geS-
lures; and protected from the shafts Of
ricicule alike by his 6elf-esteem and his
prowess, did a hundred things that zen.