Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-26
Copyright 1895 by BachclleS Johnson & Baeheller
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Copyright 1895. by BachcueS Johnson & Bacheller)
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Beauxlieux was walking late that night
on the stone terrace flooded with moon
light. On one side the sea, not far away,
swelled like the curve of some silver shield
and cast it's OWE luster back upon the sky
and filed the night with the soft music OF
its murmur. On the other side he saw the
old chateau. covered with vines, full of
deep-set shadows.
"Voyez vous pendre au flame de la coliine
Ces murs. ces tours. cette waste ruine?'
he repeated as he walked.
aux temps passes une brupante cour
Retentissait douce ce muet sejour,
III fut peuple de heroes ct de bellies,
ii entendit aux mobiles demoiseiles.
Les chevaliers chanter des lois damour.
And lust then he saw two shadows hurry
ing down the arcade of the long disused
chapel cloister. disused, since. when she
had reorganized her household on the basis
of comparative poverty. the duchess had
suffered the able to go. accepting in his
stead the offices of the village priest. "Ah.
WELL" Beauxliex said. gentle smile fol-
lowing the shadows, 1.-The love of the noble
dernoiseIIe and the chevaler Is no better
worth than the love of Pierre and Victor
ine And this may help to strike the bal
ance with all that other. the loves, the
luxury of that bruyante cour- Can 1t take
less than the life time of centuries CT
Beauxlieux to restore to the people all OF
which that bruyante cour, and such as
that has robbed them?"
For he had already another point OF view
than that of his mother. who, believing ~
the duty of mobiles to hold their people In
charge and provide for their happiness, was
confident that the Beauxlieux could never
have done otherwise. And he went back TO
his thoughts, which were now iuIl Oh sohi-
While at his studies In Paris BeauXheuX
had penetrated the hidden side OF life: ne
had seen sights that made him shudder
again he spoke OF them TO Jean. Ana
IN recalling these journeys with VI. Etle'lne
as far as the Caucasus he forgot the pal
aces. the galleries, the lovely women the
stupendous fortiiicationS. the grim Soldiery
all he had seen. except the squaIor, the
crime, the poverty. He was going back 10
Paris now to finish his medical studies. ne
would write every day TO Jean, ne Wouiu
see Pierre frequently enough, but Pierre 5
outlook on life was already totally at va
rance with his and Jeans. Moreover
Pierre meant to be a money maker, ana
their contention was to destroy money; II
Is the first evil" he said, as he walked,
looking across the lawn, that long ago had
been filed in where once the moat gathered
its water and into the edge of the over
grown park, where hare bounded across
the open space And suddenly something
smote his vision like blaze of glory and
was gone again, shining, shapeless-a moon
beam cleaving the foam wreath OF cas-
caGe, an apparitlon of gltterinS mist,
white ghost of the old maSnif1cenceS come
back to look upon the scene with HIM For
a moment the thought flashed on him that
it was some masquerading play of Victor
ines, and then it had vanished so instantly
that he knew it for an Illusion of his eyes.
of his brain. tired with thinking and caring
and Borrowing for sorrows ne could not
heal And so he left the night and moon
light and the cold, unquiet sea, and went
to his slumbers.
There had been brief season or gayety
In the first year after Beaulieux's majority,
when Pierre, who reported himself as dong
finely. came home to marry Nictorine,
whose hand he had asked OF the duchess
q wedding which took a great load on the
mind of Olympic since she knew the wiles
of yictorine and the charm of being Ouch