The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-02

times on consultations. ~ lhe poor
duchess, who had once only to ex-..
press wish and it seemed as if the
forces Of nature fell in line to grant it,
did not know that practically the
greater part Of the money spent in the
household was that brought home by
NJ. Etienne, and after those journeys
NJ. Etienne, who could have command
ed fortunes had he not chosen rather
to remain the protector OF her and OF
her child. Seldom anything broke the
tranquil monotony. Once Beauxlieux
was nearly drowned, and the Joy OF
his revival was more than JOY could
have been at the restoration of power
and wealth. Once Jean broke his leg
and the monsieur set it, and the
duchess tended him, the little
fair-haired fellow with his appeal
ing face, as if he had been her
own, and he loved them as dog might
love them, or rather as a slave Who'll had
still the memory Of his own tribe and
cabins. AS for little Pierre, nothing
ever happened to him; he kept himself
out of every trouble; he was always
brought in innocent from every scrape;
you might suspect him, but you could
never bring the mischief home to him.
Victorine, the half niece of Olympic,
who had been brought to the chateau
at the wish of madame, when the
child's parents died, was Pierre's able
abettor; and many a time did Jean s,1f-
fer in silence reprimand for the fault
of those two impish things. But Vic
torine was very pretty and little and
tender, and if Pierre could connect her
with his nlisdenleanors, he knew he
was safe from betrayal from Beaux-
lieux and from Jean. The duchess
liked to see Victorine's pretty youth
and brightness about her, thinking OF
no possible consequences, and had her
taught by Olympic to rip and sew and
dress hair; and then, in the mother
illness of her nature. and because there
were no daughters Of neighboring seig-
neurs, as in old times, to be taught the
fine arts of home, she would have her
am hour or two day with herself IN
the morning, leading her into the mys-
teries of lacemaking and embroidery,
of water-color painting, reading his
tory and poems, greatly to olympe's
ill-concealed joy. Sometimes Duchesse
des Sarazines BeauSlieux smiled to
herself, little bitterly, to think that
the niece of her serving-woman, and
the children of q charcoal burner and
of fisherman should be the half Of her
household.
But while her son grew and increased
in stature and strength and in all Che
finer and nobler aspects of his being,
the duchess asked no more. Under M.
Etiennes care bis scholarship was all
that could be wished; and in the mat
ter of physical accomplishment the
tall, 1.-the STRIPPING fenced and boxed
and rode and shot with the best; and
his mother thought with fond pride
how we'll he would take his place and
part when he should be called to it.
Occasionally now the monsieur took
Beauxlieux with him on his Journeys
to Paris or elsewhere. and his mother
was satisfied that he should first see
the world, and perhaps what is called
life. with NJ. Etiennt beside him. They
made no nse of his title, however, then.
est would be absurd said Bennxlieux,
''withcut q sou, so TO say, IN ones
pocket" But he was aware that that
was something not to dwell ON before
the duchess. When he came home hs
had much to relate to her, and much TO
tell Jean and Pierre. On one occasion
Nj. Etienne had taken him, as if he
were his assistant, to a grand house,
where a famous surgeon mad requested
the monsieur's help, and where BcnuxS:-
iieux had at first bsap, dazzled by
wealth and then .,daSed with woiiss:aslry "
They had ~g1ns afterward in haste
across Austria. on another occasion for
M. Etienne's services, to O half savage
Roumanian prince, where, owing to his
incognito, BeauxHeux saw much OF the
Life beneath the barbaric splendor, the
Partisan surgeon leaving the case with
M. Etienne; so that for several weeks
Beauxlieux, among conditions OF life
of which he had had no conception.
found himself, unaware, in his leisnre
as M. Etienne's superfuous attendant,
studying them, getting close interest:
in the people Of the forest, on tue
mountain, lin the cabins clustered IN
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