The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-07-31
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You have come, trust, to withdraw
your prohibition Nothing will give
me greater pleasure than to bring his
ma esty S notice to one of the best sol
diers his army holds
Pardon me. madame; ! do not come
to trespass so far upon your benigni-
ty." he answered as he bent before her.
81 come to express rather my regret
that you should have made one single
error
Error! a naughty surprise glanced
from her eyes as they swept over him
Such word had never been used to
her in the whole course of her brilliant.
and pampered life Of sovereignty and
Indulgence.
One common enough. madame. in
your order the error to suppose that
under the rough cloth Of private
troopers uniform there cannot possibly
be such aristocratic monopolies as
nerves to wound. Z
II do not comprehend you She
spoke very coldly. She repented pro-
foundry her concession in admitting
a Chasseur .'Afrique to her presence.
Possibly not. Mine was the folly
to dream that you would ever do So.
should not have intruded on you now
but for this reason: The humiliation
you were pleased to pass on me
could neither refuse nor resent to the
dealer of it. Had I done so men who are
only too loyal to me would have resent
ed with me and been thrashed or been
shot as payment. was compelled to
accept it and to wait until could re-
turn your gift to you. have no right
to complain that you panied me with
| 1t since one who occupies my position
ought. presume, to consider remem-
brance, even by an outrage. an honor
done to him by the Princess Corona. =
| AS he said the last words he laid on
the table that stood near him the gold
| of Chateaurey's insult She had lis
tened with beWildered wonder. held
| in check by the laughter impulse of
| offense that man in this grade should
venture thus to address. thus to ar
raign her. As he laid the goldpieces
down upon her table an idea of the
| truth came to her
81 know nothing Of what you COM
plain of. / sent you no money. What
| is it you would imply r. she asked him.
looking up from where she leaned
back in the low couch into whose depth
she had sunk as he had spoken.
you did not send me these-no as
payment for the chess service?
sAssuredly not. After what you said,
the other day should have scarcely
been so Ill bred and so needless Of in
ficting pain. Who used my name
thus r.
His face lightened with pleasure
and a relief that changed it wonder
fully-that brighter look of gladness
that had been 8 stranger to it for so
many years.
You give me infinite happiness.
madame. You little dream how bitter
such Sights are when one has lost the
power to resent them! It was Colonel
Chateauroy who this morning
Dared to tell you sent you those
coins 2"
The serenity of a courtly woman of
the world was unbroken. but her blue
and brilliant eyes darkened and
cleaned beneath the sweep Of their
| lashes.
Perhaps can scarcely say SO much.
He gave them. and he implied that he
| gave them from you. The words he
spoke were these
| He told her them as they had been
uttered. adding no more. She saw the
construction they had been intended
to bear and that which they had borne
naturally to his ear She listened ear
! nestly to the end. Then she turned to
him with the exquisite softness Of
grace which, when she was moved to
it, contrasted so wildly with the
naughty and almost chill languor Of
her habitual manner.
Believe me. I'regret deeply that you
should have been wounded by this
most coarse indignity. / grieve sin
lscerely that through myself in any way
| it should have been brought upon you.
AS for the perpetrator of it, Colonel
Chateauroy will be received here no
more. and it shall be my care that. he
| learns not only how resent this un-
pardonable use of my name. but how
esteem his cruel outrage to a de-
| fender of his own flag. You did ex-
ceedingly we'll and wisely to acquaint
me: in your treatment Of it as an
afront that was without " arrant to
offer you. you showed the just indigna-
ton Of a soldier, and Of what am
very sure that you area gentleman, 4
He bowed low before her.
Madame, you have made me the
debtor Of my enemy $ outrage. Those
words from Jou are more than sufh-
1 cient compensate for it. &
"a poor one, Z fear. Your colonel
lis your enemy. then And where
fore ~
| He paused q moment.
Why, at first / scarcely know. We
are antago nistic, 4 suppose. 4
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