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Madelaine.
" I know no one there . " "Indeed !" " Positively , no oue ; but you , Sir , you knoiv the Chevalier ?" " Certainly ; Ave are old friends . " " They say he is good and charitable ? " "Ah , yes , very charitable , " replied the young man , who
fancied at first that this was only some ordinary case of asking for assistance . But looking again at his young companion , he rejected the idea , and added gravely , " I assure you , I consider the CheA'alier to be the noblest of living beings . " " I kneAV it : I never doubted it ; and yet I am delighted to hear any one say so . And little Maurice must knoAv
, you him ?" " What little Maurice ?" " Why , the son of the Chevalier . " "Ah , yes , I see ; I understand , " replied the young man , laughing . " I knoAV him . " " Does he promise to become as good and great as his father 1 "
" I fancy he is generally liked in the neighbourhood ; and , at all events , I will not speak against him . " At this moment they crossed a glade , and behind the walls of a park Avhich bordered on the forest , they saAV the chateau , the Ai'indows sparkling in the last gleams of the setting sun .
CHAPTER II . On the same evening , at the same hour , the CheA'alier cle Valtravers and the Marchioness de Frisnes ( whose residence might be seen through the poplar trees bordering the Vienne , at the upper end of the valley ) were enjoying the air upon the terrace in front of the chateau . They Avere chatting of the
past ; for at their advanced age , memory is one of the great charms of existence . Their friendship was of long standing . At the first sound of the republican tocsin the Marquis cle Frisnes had taken his AA'ife from France to the Rhine ; and the Chevalier , from respect to the memory of his monarchhad accompanied them . We all
, IUIOAV IIOAV that AA'hich Avas at first expected to be only a tour of a feAV months , became , through necessity , a long and painful exile for hundreds of our countrymen . The three friends had reckoned so surely upon a speedy return , that they had taken but very little property Avith them . These resources gone , they found themselves at Nuremberg , asking each other by Avhat
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Madelaine.
" I know no one there . " "Indeed !" " Positively , no oue ; but you , Sir , you knoiv the Chevalier ?" " Certainly ; Ave are old friends . " " They say he is good and charitable ? " "Ah , yes , very charitable , " replied the young man , who
fancied at first that this was only some ordinary case of asking for assistance . But looking again at his young companion , he rejected the idea , and added gravely , " I assure you , I consider the CheA'alier to be the noblest of living beings . " " I kneAV it : I never doubted it ; and yet I am delighted to hear any one say so . And little Maurice must knoAv
, you him ?" " What little Maurice ?" " Why , the son of the Chevalier . " "Ah , yes , I see ; I understand , " replied the young man , laughing . " I knoAV him . " " Does he promise to become as good and great as his father 1 "
" I fancy he is generally liked in the neighbourhood ; and , at all events , I will not speak against him . " At this moment they crossed a glade , and behind the walls of a park Avhich bordered on the forest , they saAV the chateau , the Ai'indows sparkling in the last gleams of the setting sun .
CHAPTER II . On the same evening , at the same hour , the CheA'alier cle Valtravers and the Marchioness de Frisnes ( whose residence might be seen through the poplar trees bordering the Vienne , at the upper end of the valley ) were enjoying the air upon the terrace in front of the chateau . They Avere chatting of the
past ; for at their advanced age , memory is one of the great charms of existence . Their friendship was of long standing . At the first sound of the republican tocsin the Marquis cle Frisnes had taken his AA'ife from France to the Rhine ; and the Chevalier , from respect to the memory of his monarchhad accompanied them . We all
, IUIOAV IIOAV that AA'hich Avas at first expected to be only a tour of a feAV months , became , through necessity , a long and painful exile for hundreds of our countrymen . The three friends had reckoned so surely upon a speedy return , that they had taken but very little property Avith them . These resources gone , they found themselves at Nuremberg , asking each other by Avhat