The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-11-04

wrctched commonwealth, ana then go
to the gu1llotine before his successor.
IS q good citizen l should hare turned
these Jewels and stones and coins over
to tie state. But I was acting the part
CT Jacquot, and as an honest peasant
I whipped them under my blouse ana
carried them away. In my straits OF
exile / never decreased them. And you
may take inventory Of your property
and claim it when we rise from the
table"
MY heart came up in my throat. l
reached across and caught his hands.
.Tou believe in me-you believe IN
rcer'
DO I observe any etiquette with you,
Lazarrc? This is the second time l
have brought the fact to yolr notice.
particularly wish you to note that l
do not observe any etiquette with YOU"
what does boy who has been
brought UP among Indians know about
etiquette? But you accept me or you
could not put the property you have
Loyalty and at such risk saved for my
family into my hands"
81 don't accept even your uncle OF
Provence. The king of Spain and pre-
fer to call him BY that modest title.
Since you died or were removed from
the Temple be has taken the name OF
Louis XVIII. and maintained a court
at the expense Of the czar Of Russia
and the king Of Spain. He is fine
I.at,nist, quotes Latin verse and keeps
the mass bells cverlastingiy ringing.
The Russians laugh at his royal mass
,es! But in my opinion the sacred gen.
tleman is either moral slush or very
deep ouicksand. 1t astonishes me-"
said the Marquis du Plessy, "to ind
how many people do disapprove or!
/ really require very little Of the peo-
pie ] am obliged to meet"
He smoothed my hands, which were
yet holding his, and exploded:
The Count Of Provence is an old
turtle! Not exactly reptile, for there
is food in him. But Of devllish tat
head and cruel snap Of the jaws"
"Bow can that be-" I argued, when
his niece loves him 80? And even in
the American woods, with mind
eclipsed. was not forgotten. BE sent
me Of the money that be was obliged to
receive IN charity"
t.It Is easy to dole out charity money.
gou are squeezing other peoples purses,
not your own. What most object to in
the Count OF Provence is that assump-
ton Of kingly airs, provided the story
is true which leaked secretly among the
emisres. The story which heard was
that the dauphin had not died, but was
an idiot in America. An idiot cannot
reign. But the throne of France is not
clamoring so loud for Bourbon at
present that the idiots substitute must
be proclaimed and hold beggars
court. There are mad loyalists who
swear by this eighteenth Louis. l an
not one of them. In fact, Lazarre, l
was rather out of tune with your
house"
Not your said.
II do not fit in these times. ought
to have gone with my king and my
friends under the knife. Often l am
ashamed Of myself for slipping away.
That I should live to see disgusting
fools in the streets of Paris after the
Terror was over, young men affecting
the Greek and Roman manner, greeting
one another by wagging Of the head!
They wore gray coats With black col
lars, gray or green cravats, carried
cudgels and decrecd that all men should
have the hair plaited, powdered and
fastened up with comb like them
selves! The wearer Of a cue was likely
to be knocked on the head. These crea-
lures used to congregate at the old
Feydeau thcater or meet around the
entrance Of the Louvre to talk classical
jargon and wag!'
The Marquis du Plessy drew himself
together, with q strong shudder I had
the desire to stand between him and
the shocks Of an alien world. Yet there
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