Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-08-27
TIE TRANSLATION OF FLSlVlrE
By GILBERT PARKER.

By GILBERT PARKER
| Copyright, 1888. by the J. B. Lippincott Col
CHAPTER VII.
1t Was hard to tell, save for q certain
delibt kateness Of speech and color a
little more pronounced than that Of a
Spanikh woman, that Mrs. Frank Ar
mour had not been brought up in Eng
land. lShe had kind of grave sweetness
and distant charm which made her no.
table.At any table or in any ballroom.
Indeed it soon became apparent that she
was "a be the pleasant talk, the interest
Of the season. This was tolerably COM
fortinE to the Armours Again Rich
ard S prophecy had been fulfilled, and
as he bat alone at Greyhope and read
The Mbrning Post, noticing Lali's name
at distinguished gatherings, or, picking
up Thb World, saw how the lion hunt
ers taxed .xtravagantly Of her, he took
some satisfaction to himself that he had
forese,In her triumph where others look
ed for her downfall Lali herself was
not elIted. 1t gratiiied her, but she had
been ah angel, and a very unsatisfactory
one, if it had not done 50.
As er confidence grew Though out
wardl1 she had never appeared to lack
1t greafly) she did not hesitate 10 speak
of herEelf rs an Indian, her country as
a good country and her people as n no.
BILE IL hispossessed racial the more
so il thought reference 10 her ma
tionalily and past was being rather con-
spicuotsly avoided She had asked
Gener,il Armour for an interview with
her hu, band = solicitor This was grant
ed. When she met the solicitor, she
asked him To send no newspaper TO her
husband p containing any reference to
herself nor yet to mention her in his
letters
She bad never directly received line
from him but once, and that was after
she had come to know the truth about
his MARRIAGE with her She could read
in thel conventional sentences, made
simple hs for child. the strained po-
litencss| and his absolute silence rs To
whethef or not child had been born To
them, ihe utter absence Of affection for
her. She had also induced General Ar
mour ahd his wife 10 give her husband
solicitor no information regarding he
birth ol the child. There was thus ~
parentlF no more inducement for him
to hurrE back To England than there
was wien i had sent her off on his
missiori Of retaliation, which had b., n
such ah ignominious failure, for tI.1
humili, tion of his family had been s
lived he affront to Lady Hald,
nothing at all. The Armours had
been hui man il they had failed to ent"y
their daughter laws success. al
though they never perhaps would quite
recover from the disappointment con-
cerningI Lady Agnes Martling, the result
was so huch better than they in their
checrfu lest moments dared hope fer
that the h pDcared genuinely content
To thI ir grandchild they were dew.
edly attkchct. Marion was his faithful
slave arh rdmircr, so much so that Cap
tain Villall, who now and then wgS
permitted to sec the child, declared hill
self jealb bus He and Marion were TO be
ma riedl soon The wedding had been
delayed owing TO his enforced absence
abroad. Mrs. Edward Lambert. once
Mrs To Enley, shyly regretted in Lali's
presence that tho child or one rs sweet
was not hers. Her husband evidently
shared her opinion from the oxtraordi-
nary notice he took ot il when his wife
was not present Not that Richard Jo-
seph Arr hour, Jr., was always en- evi'
dence, bbt when asked for by his faith
ful frieills and admirers he was amia.
bly, prod Eced.
Meanwhile Frank Armour across the
sea was engaged with many things.
His business concerns had not prospcrcd
prodigiob bsly, chiefly because his Judg-
ment, az his temper, had grown some
what un pertain. His popularity in the
Hudson bay country had been at some
tension iince he had shipped his wife
away to England. Even the ordinary
savage hind saw something unusual
and undtmestic in il, and the general
hospitality declined little. Armour
did not Immediately guess the cause,
but one lay about year after his wife
had gon1 he found occasion TO reprove
a half bi ked, by name jacques Pontiac,
and Jactues, with more honesty than
politeneE. said some hard words and
asked how much he paid for his Eng
lish hired devils TO kill his wife. Strange
to saw. hb did not resent this startling
remark. lie set him to thinking. He be-
gan TO blame himself for not having
written lftencr to his people-and TO
his wife. He wondered how far his re-
yenge hid succeeded. He was most
it now. He knew that he
had dond dishonorable thing. The
more he thought upon it the more angry
with himself he became. Yet he dread
ed to 90 back to England and face 1t
all-the reproach Of his people, the
amuseme ht of society. his wife herself.
He never attempted to picture her Is
civilized being. He scarcely knew her
when he married her. She knew MN
much better, for primitive people are
quicker ih the play of their passions
and she had come to love him before he
had begun to notice her at all.
Presently he ate his heart out win
modification. To be yoked forever to-a