f that engagement to look at Dumaresque's new picture, won't you? It really is not worth while for an A

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ree great windows let in softened rays on the paneled walls, on the fluted columns of white and gold, and on the famous frescoes of the Fi

iends in my own rooms more than elsewhere. From my couch I have the best point o

f state; and with her usual quai

are great for all that," she would affirm. "One does not

ture at the far end of the great salon––that of a very handsome young woman who la

mother, out 11 of his hearing. "It will do

ntal; but they were not really so. He was only telling her

me Choudey and her pretty, prim niece,

, Ma

ards you, but against myself they will feel a grievance th

ed as one who un

aid, smiling; but the girl––for she was only a

e," she replied, indifferently; "they were

umaresque, pointing to a large canvas hung opposite; "my pict

sieur Dumaresque, a true Gasc

ded her approval to Dumaresque, who smiled and acquiesced. Evidentl

k brows, and dark, long-lashed eyes. The eyes had none of the shyness 12 that was deemed a necessity to b

on her waved, dark hair, while the veil falling from it and mingling with

e; only the lips had that thread of scarlet sung of by Solomon, and t

od there looking. The picture evidently attracted her, t

paint pictur

Pouf! You me

by the dowager's couch. "To be truly beautiful a thing must impress one with a sense

s, lions, the many art wor

you wish to quarrel," said the dowager in friendly warning. "

ack blood in her veins. They think of the dark people as we think of apes. It is all a question of longitude, Monsieur Dumaresque. The crudeness of America is 13 the jest of France. The wisdom of France is the lightest folly of the Brahims; an

protested t

or the picture," conceded the girl; "but why not endeavor to awaken a higher, stronger expr

ask to be the missionary, and because it is the pretty Kora you would ask me to convert––and to what? Am I so per

, laughing at the dismay in his face. "She knows you do well; only she fe

said briefly; and the girl dropped her hands weari

ely; "and if he does, I warn you, though it is only mid-day, I shall go asle

nger, "it is really lamentable, Loris, that your sen

rey! She lectures, preaches at me! Tells me I lack virtue! But more is the pity for me; sh

r eyes still closed, "to not misc

virtues would find me so responsive, when, pouf! with one word you demolished all my c

elf-pity that the old lady laughed an

cted and disconsolate when you have women to listen. It is all because you are jus

ay; "and only three months since she emerged from the co

n in her hand passed into the alcoved music room; a little later an

nsation," prophesie

is not necessary to her; only her affection for me brings her from her

e unattractive one could under