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'''''t'ho ibi anu yet WllltIl lC ltlt Ut
terly unable to bring about. Indeed,
his thoughts had been so busy with
| her personality and her image, that
| the time, which might have dragged
| as only time can linger, leaden-footed
| in the sick chamber, had passed be-
| fore he noticed it.
Yet he was very dissatisfied with
| the situation There was something
| about the young demoiselle which
| moved him powerfully, something he
| could not explain. The thought of her
| bctrothal TO de Wire filed him with
a certain jealous dismay--he could not
exactly tell why. II was hardly pos
| sible he could he in love with her him
self, girl he had seen but day
| since. He seemed to have known, or
to have met her before, though. How
was it? De Couedic! And yet
But what could he do? Nothing.
He was master of himself now-in tho
! full possession Of his faculties, with
| no excuse Of weakness, wounds. or
fever, that is--and there could be no
possible reason for so personal an APP
peal to her as he had made when in
| fevcred confusion he had asked hcr
if she loved de Wire.
During the day he was attended
by strange servant, and saw neither
Joan-Renaufl nor Joselte. either Of
whom might have enlightened him
had not both been kept from him by
the ord rs Of their mistress. The con-
verSation between the two, therefore.
on tho occasion OF these two visits was
| necessarily brief confined on her part
| TO inquiries as to his well-being his
needs and desires. and upon his part
to expressions of gratitude for her
Kindness. and earnest deprecations of
he trouble he was giving her and her
household
AS for her. every time she APP
preached him she longcd to declare
herself With ,ho passionate ahan-
don OF n French woman who loved lit
orally for the first time, who found
herself in The actual presence Of a
long-chorished ideal. before q roaiza-
ton OF her sirlsh and maidcnly
dreams, she would fain have thrown
herself upon his breast--into mis-
arms. She lOnged to gather him to
her heart aLd lavish upon him those
treasures of affection which all the
Eallantry. courage and devotion or de
Nitre could not evoke And all this
in the face of the keen jealousy she
suffered over the lOcket he wore. and
the resentment she felt in DESPITE of
the precautions she took to prevent it.
that he had not recognized her-which
was unreasonable but essentially fem
mine.
But she had controlled herself like
an American. The marouis himself
could NOT have been mora cooltv and
coIdlv nolito than She. As for Graf
ton. he had not let to use his own
oXDression got his boarinus" Never
in his life had he been SO moved bv
the presence of woman AS during
the last two DAYS. He could hardly
reason about il clearly in his present
condition. But at last he thouen
that the cXplanation OF this infatuatoin
must lie in his weakness and har
beauty. for with singular family he
had not succeeded in discovering anv
other reason for his interest
In the first place owing 20 the pre-
cautions she h9d taken. he had not vet
had thai clear. full sight of the girl
for which he lOusrd. She had always
been in n hail liGht. or concealed in
some shadow, or with lace turned
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