Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-19
1 Am Net q King. Mother.

save-and she herself the cause of the
trouble--it would have been almost as nee
essary for her to try to avert the EVIL mad
the person concerned been st. Malo or
MontagUeFert or Il stranger. She had q
warm and quiet affection for her husband,
an immense belief in him and admiration
for him, but that was all
When the duke died and left her with his
son she wept; she bereft. But here
was the duke, and now all the more the
duke, all the more proudly and fondly in
sisted on since ShOrn of imperial favor.
For before the duke died. after he had re-
fused the friendship of the emperor and
had confronted his hostility. and had re-
turned with his wife and child and the peo-
pie of his court to The old residence on the
Atlantic shores. 1t with fortunes sadly
impoverished by the reckless expenditures
with which he had promoted the legitimist
issues, while relying on success and uti-
mate repayment. During the dukes sub
Se4uent illness fnnumerable wrongs We're
done his estates. winked at by authority
and never reported to the central powers
Undertakings into which the duke had al
lowed himself to be drawn, in the fever of
adventure belonging to the era, came to
notmr G--perhaps at an imperial froWn
Ranking houses failed, factors retained
FUNDS, government seized here, landSliGeS
destroyed vineyards there; and in the time
of the first seclusioH of the duchess, after
her Widowhood, robberies right and left,
public and private, dispossessed her of vast
resources. When she attempted to look
into the matter for herself she was little
wiser than before; but she discovered that
she must dismiss her ladies and the gen.
tlemen of her household, and live as she
understood lesser MOBILES, even quite
plain people, lived. Her one faithful friend
remained with her-her adviser and the
boys tutor. That he was a physician of
note she thought fortunate for the boy $
sake: and she did not know of how much
note, sent for and consulted with by the
greatest. She never knew the sacrifice of
station and income he matte By remainin,
with her. But it was NECESSARY, even had
1t been contrary TO his intlina ton, for NJ .
Etenne was also to some, extent a man of
affairs, and even the little that was left had
been rescued by him. The greater part of
the chateau was closed. togo slowly to de-
cay. What did she and her boy want more
than few rooms and. simple fare? With
only the servants that were INDISPENSABLE
ana IN ways she knew as Il girl at home
with her father she took up life again, at
once too proud and too Inundated to ex-
pose her condition to- cid, f-iends-one by
one those Old friends, themselves in grief
or secl1;sion, or exiled With one or the other
of the unachnowiedgeti kings to whom
they save aliegiance, disappearing from the
But none the less was She a duchess of
the SaraZines BeauXlieuX. None the less
was her son the duke. And. apart from her
absorbing love as his mother she had an
adCriES Vcneration for him as the last of
the SaraZnes BeaUxlieux.
You will remember" she said to the
child, holding his hand as she sat beside
his bed at night-she had not been able to
delegate this delight even when service
abundant, and Formally triumphant
although she half feared it was a survival
of that peasant strain in her again "You