Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-05-27

- tertaining him, and no rout was
complete without him.
At the Raleigh tavern, whose low
wooden walls were kept a-throb with
packs of new deviltries brought by
young bloods of the navy from the
sloop of war Fowey. come to anchor in
York Roads, he was the center of OBJ
servation when he diced. Commissions
in the royal navy went for gold in that
rotten reign, and their holders were
younger sons with as much money to
spend as the younger sons of the broad
manors Of Virginia.
Young Brooke, who by aid of half
the broken fOrtuned harpies and rocks
of London, had long ago run through
all be could lay hands on and whose
talk was always when l hunted at
Tunbridge Wells with my Lord This"
or when my Lord That had me at
Hendron castle for Easter" had now
nobility near at home to descant upon.
~ great man in France" he would
enlighten the roomful, smoothing his
ruGles, "favorite Of Marie Antoi-
nette's, they say. and as rich rs John
Dory. Egad, ia like the pattern Of the
coat be had on this mornings"
As for the marquis, he took his hon
ors quietly, superbly. More than once
it was reported that he had dined pri-
vately with the royal governor. but
he himself clearly thought it scarce
worth mentioning.
An interesting story Of duel with
| Captain Foy gained currency for
time The captain was said to have
wounded the marquis slightly by foul
means, but Foy was absent much of
the time on business for the governor,
and the story was forgotten save for
the passing glamour it cast upon the
new faVorite.
The nobleman's preference for the
beauty of Williamsburg was soon per-
ceived and very early Mrs. Byrd had
begun to hint at broken hearts and the
folly of young girls who set their eyes
too high
Anne herself was never so beautiful,
never so brilliant never 50 willfully
captivating, as now, when a scarf of
gayety hid the passion of many hearts
! fermenting.
On an afternoon they two Anne and
Armand, walked slowly under the
pines that stretched down from the
gateway of GLADDEN. Hall.
Just before the marketed gateway
he stopped.
"You are cruel to me, mademoiselle."
His voice was anxious, vibrating long
ing.
why cruel, monsieur"
"Ah, l need not tell you that" he
said. looking at her earnestly. is it
that have failed? Am l not some
how what you would wish ina noble
man? Is there something lackingT
She shook her head. mo, no"
"Yet something is different. l have
searched so hard to find what it Is. l
have seen you at the routs and have
danced with you, but you are not the
same At Greenway Court, there where
the leaves were falling-I wish it could
have been so always, us two, in the
forest-you were kinder and not so cold
to mepi
Marquis" Thee was splendor of
color in her face, bent sweet to him.
Her eyes, tinted and lustrous, were
gay beneath the warm glimmer of her
hair.
Marquis" repeated the young man,
flushing. 81 was not that to you in the
forest l foune then that you were
not like the ladies of my land, who
know naught save grandeur and titles
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things. that you were such one as
have dreamed must be somewhere.
ask you only to be to me as you were
then-as you We're that day when the
governor came back-when | sat Will
you on the hillside. Can you forget
mademoiSelle, that l an not just the
same that ! was thenT'
you are so much more. Then | die
not know who you We're"
81 would the governor had not come,
he said. Il would have remained Il
you just the same as l had been-th'
same as when for one moment | helC
you in the broken coach, and that mo
ment when l opened my eyes at Green
way Court and saw your face"
She felt her hands trembling, he
heart beating its way through he
breast. His voice was very low as b.
went on:
"A man finds some time the one o
all the world he would not have coli
to him. He may never have seen her
her whom he has looked for all his lif
the woman In his heart! But he al
ways knows her when he hears he
speak! He can never know when o
where that may be. 1t is at the ball o
walking in the street or riding in
coach. That day, MISUNDERSTANDING
it was before you knew-I was jus
NJ. Armand, not the Marquis de !
Trouerie. l was not great then, bu
just man-and unworthy"
, NO" she said. her tone tremulous