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7’ ,3 l fin +‘+H~+++‘+“++w "w " ' 14+. ' ‘ 1 4,; CHAPTER ~XII.-â€"(Cont’d Gervase smiled, conscious of his ast successes and knowledge them. “But you see she does not sigh l” he murmurs, with a sense that the admission is not flattering to his own amour-propre. “You have lost the ]‘.:owcr to -make her sigh, do you meané’ “I make no impression on her at all. I am utterly unable to im- agine her feelings, her sentiment-s, -â€"how much she would acknowledge. how much she would ignore.” “That is a confession of great helpfulness! I should never have believed that you would be baffled by any woman, above all by a wuâ€" man who once loved you.” “It is not easy to make a fire out of ashes.” “Not if the ashes are quite cold, certainly; but if a spark remains in them, the fire soon comes again.” He is silent; the apparent indifâ€" ference of a person whom he beâ€" lieved to be living out her life in solitude, occupied only with his memory, annoys and mortifies him. He has never doubted his own pow- er to write his name indelibly on the hearts of women. “Perhaps she wishes to marry Blanford’l” suggests Dorothy Usk. “Pshawl” says Lord Gervase. “Why pshaw “l” repeats his cou- sin, persistently. “He would not be a man to my taste, and he hates marriage, and he has a set of Hin- doos at St. Hubert’s Lea, which‘ would require as much cleaning as the Augean stable; but I dare say she doesn’t know anything about them, and he may be persuading her that he thinks marriage opens the doors of Paradise; men can so eas- ily pretend that sort of thing! N A marry her, I believe, since she came back into the world after hers se- clusion. George declares that Blanford is quite serious.” 1}} ‘ ‘Preposterous replies Lord Gervase. “Really, I don’t see that,” replies his judicious cousin. “A great many women have wanted to marry him, though one wonders why. In- deed, I have heard some of them declare that he is wholly irresis- tible when he chooses.” “With Hindoos, perhaps,” says Gervase. “With our own women,” says his cousin. “Lady Mary Jardine died of a broken heart because he wouldn’t look at her.” “Pray spare me the roll-call of his victims,” says Lord Gervase, irâ€" ritably; he is passionately jealous of Blanfor-d. He nimself had for- gotten Xenia Sabaroff, and forgot- ten all his obligations to her, when she had been, as he always had be- lieved, within reach of his hand if he stretched it out; but viewed as a woman whom other men wooed and another man might win, she has become to him intensely to be desired and to be disputed. He has been a spoiled child of fortune and of the drawing-rooms all his years, and the. slightest opposition is in- tolerable to him. “I have no doubt,” continues Dorothy Usk, gently, continuing her embrondery of a South Kensing- ton design of lilies and palm-leaves, “that if he were aware you had a prior claim, if he thought or knew that you had ever enjoyed her symâ€" pathy, he would immediately withâ€" draw and leave "the field; he is a very proud man, with all his careâ€" lessness. and would not, I think, care to be second to anybody in the affections of a woman whom he seri- ously sought.” “What do you mean ’2” asks Ger- vase, abruptly. pausing in his walk to and fro in the boudoir. “Only what I say,” she answers. “If you wish to cloigncr Blanford, ive him some idea of the truth.” Gervasc laughs a little. . “On my honor,” he thinks. with 5 me bitterness, “for sheer uncomâ€" promising meanness there is noâ€" thing comparable to the sugges- i.ions which a woman will make to --.. j}: yu- “I couldn’t do that,” he says, aloud. “What would he think of 11)) me i , “My dear A'lu'fi,” replies Dorothy Usk, impatiently, getting her silks in a tangle, “when a man has be- haved to any woman as you, by you" own account, have behavod to Madame Sabaroff. I think it is a great many men nave wanted to 1 Or, A TRUTH NEVER On). willing to ac- l 9 +++H H++++++++++~ + ++++++ H+++++~+++++++Â¥+4-+++++++++++§+H++++4 little late in the day to pretend to much elevation of feeling.” “You do not understand “I have always found,” says his cousin, impatiently searching for shades of silk which she does not see, “that whenever we presume to pronounce an opinion on any man’s conduct and think ill of it we are always told that we don’t underâ€" stand anything. When we flatter the man, or compliment him on his conduct, there is no end to the marvellous powers Of our penetra- tion, the fineness of our instincts, the accuracy of our institutions.” w'ervase does not hear; his thoughts are elsewhere; he is thinkâ€" ing of Xenia Sabaroff as he saw her first in the Salle‘ des Palmiers in the Winter Palace,â€"â€"â€"a mere girl, a mere child, startled and made nervous by {\he admiration she ex- cited and the homage she received, under the brutality of her husband, the .raillery of her friends; but that time is long ago, very long, as the life of women counts, and Xenia Saâ€" baroff is now perfect mistress of her own emotions, if emotions she ever feels. Gervase cannot for one mo- ment tell whether the past is tenâ€" derly remembered by her, is ut- terly forgotten, or is only recalled to be touched and dismissed without regret. He is a vain man, but van- ity has no power to reassure him here. . In the warm afternoon of the next day the children are in the school- room, supposed to be preparing their lessons for the morrow; but the German governess, who is alone as guardian of order in the temple of intellect, has fallen asleep, with flies buzzing about her blonde hair, and her blue spectacles pushed up on her forehead, and Dodo has tak- en advantage of the fact to go and lean out of one of the windows, while her sister draws .a caricature of the sleeping virgin from Deutschâ€" land, and the Babe slips away from his books to a mechanical Punch, which, contraband in the schoolâ€" room, is far dearer to him than his Gradus and rule of three. Dodo, with her hands thrust among her abundant locks, 1011s with half her body‘in the air, and, by twisting her neck almost to dis- location, manages to see'round an ivyâ€"grown buttress of the east wall, and to espy people who are getting on their horses at the south doors of the building. _ , -“They are going out riding and I am shut up here!” she groans. “Oh, what awhile it takes one to grow up 1” “Who are going to ride?” asks Lilie, too fascinated by her draw- ing to leave it. “Lots of them,” replies Dodo, who speaks four languages, and her own worsfi of all. “All of them, pretty nearly. Mamma’s on Pep- per, and Lady Waverley’s got Bo~ peepâ€"she’s always nervous, you know. I can’t see very much, ’cause of the ivy. Oh, there’s the princess on Satanâ€"nobody else could ride Satan; Lord Blanford put her up, and now he’s riding by her. They’re gone now --and papa’s stopping behind to do something to Bopeep’s girths.” Whereat the dutiful Oodo laughs rudely, as she laughed coming home from church. The. sound of the horses’ hoofs g0- ing farther away down the avenue )) comes through the stillness, as her 5? voice and her laughter cease. “What a shame to be shut up here just because one isn’t old!” she groans, as she listens enviously. The sun is pouring liouid gold through the ivyâ€"leaves, the air is hot and fragrant, gard anon-s are watering the flower-beds below, and the sweet, moist Scent comes up to Dodo’s nostrils and > makes her \vrithe with longing to get out; rot that she is by any means ardcntly devoted to nature, but she loves life, movement, gaycty, and she dearly loves showing off her figure on her pony and being flirted with by her father’s friends. “I am sure Lord Blaniord is in love with her; awfully in love,” she says, as she peers into the distance. where the black form of Satan is just visible through far «:fl oakâ€" boughs. “With whom i” asks Lilie, getting up from her caricature to lean also out over the ivy. “Xenia,” says Dodo. She is very proud of calling her friend Xenia. “Take care Goggles don't wake, cr :hc’ll see what you’ve been doing ” WH++++++++++++++ +1+++++++++++++++++++ +++1 The lady from Dcutschland was always known to them by this onâ€" dcaring epithet. “I don’t carc,’ says Lilie, kick- ing her bronze boots in the air. "Do you think she’ll marry Lord Islan- for-all” ) “Who 2 Goggles?” “The ideal” They laugh deliciâ€" . ously. ' “You say he’s in love with Xenia. It they’re in love they will marry," says Lilic, pcnsivoly. “No, they won’t; people who are in love never marry,” replies Do- do. ,1 “What do they do, then Z" in- quires the younger sister. “They marry somebody else, and ask the one they like to go and stay with them. It is much bother,” she adds. “It is what I shall do.” “Why is it better? It’s a round- about way,” objects Lilio. “I shouldn’t care to marry at all,” she adds, “only one can’t ever be Mistress of the Robes if one doesn’t. ’ ’ “Oh, everybody marries, of course; only some muff it, and don’t get all they want by it," re- plies the cynic Dodo. “El l’amour, Miladi Alexandr". ‘2" says the French governess, entesing at that moment. “Ou donc rnettezâ€" vous l’amour 'l” “antipmm rpgr‘h'i - unis-.24: hour or less. or by mail from Three to nix (loses. often Nauru-cc utilises Waters stop the meanest, nastiest, most persistent headaches in half an We guarantee that they contain no opiunu morphine or other poisonous drugs. 25c. abox at your druggists’, National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada. Limited. a a . - Ulc‘lmm_ .. .. é nâ€"e-fâ€"gâ€"fi L? :99 29 a Nlontrenl. 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The frank and friendly intercourse which existed at first armored ships laid down under the naval defence act of 1889, are to be partly dismantled and removed to the Mothcrbank, Spithead, other- wise known as “Rotten Row.” They are all at present in the between .Blnnl'ord wild Mme Sabar- I Fourth Division of the Home Fleet, off is altered; they are never alone, an(,l"thc )‘)l0:tliillit discussions on poets and poetry, on philosojiihcrs and follies, in the gardens in the :at Devonport, manned with one- i fifth of their full complements. Their gnamcs and cost as originally given . arc : “Nous ne sommes pas dos Lou.“ forcnoon are discontinued, neithcrl Launched. Cost geoiscs,” returns Dodo, \'ei-y.CUllld very we“ say why, but tnefltoyal Sovereign.. . 1891 £ 839,136 haughtily. I lprcscnce of Gcrvasc chills and op-llioyal Oak . . . . . . . . 1892 1,014,934. The Babe, Sitting- astride , n a, ’ presses both of them and keeps them i liepulse .... . . . . . 1892 907,843 chair, trying to mend his mechnnifiapart. She has the burden of men; iR’lmilies .. . . 1892 952,550 cal Punch, who screamed and beat 0123’, 17019110 bill‘an 0f SUSPiCiO”; “TH-l l Empress Of India! - 1891 902,788 his wife absolument comme 1a. “a- suspicion is a thing so hateful and’Resolution .. .. .. 1892 929,267 ture, as the French governess said, intolerablcio the nature of Blan- ______..____.__ before he was brokeny hears she (315. ford that it makes him miserable Total cost . . . . . . £5,546,532 course of his sisters and muses on it. He is very fond of Blanford. and he adores his princess; he would like them to live together, and he would go and see them without his sisters, who tease him, and with- to feel himself guilty of. it. But one morning the Babe coaxes her out to go with him to his gar- denâ€"a floral republic, where a cab- bage comes up check by jowl with a igloxinia, and plants are plucked up out Boom, who lords it over ill'Jl. ‘ by the 1'00“ t0 5'93 if they are STOW' Into his busy and precocious little brain there enters the resolution to ing aright. The Babe’s system of *horticulture is to dig intently for pousser 1;], machine, as ggverâ€" ten minutes in directions, to ness would call it. The Babe has a vast idea of his and then ’00 own resources in the way of speech I Harry. {my make himself very red in the lam, call Dick, Tom, or under-gardener who and invention, and he has his 1110â€" may be near, and Bay, “Here, d0 ther’s tendencies to interfere with ithwm 370112”. Nevertheless, he 1'9' other people’s affairs‘ and is quite tains the behef he IS the CI'e-;'buIL-ter approaching that_chara,cmr_ of an opinion that if he had the management of most things’he should better them. He has broke-.11 ator and cultivator of this his gar- den, as M. Grevy believes that he is the chief person in the French his Parisian Punch in his endeavor Republic; and he takes Mme- Sab- to make it say more words tnan it “Off to adlmre 11?- could say,“ but this slight accident does not affect his ’own admiration 5" little more in order,” She Permlts “It would look better if it were and belief in his own powers, any herself to Observe~ more than to have brought a great and presperous empire within mca- surable distance of civil war affects “Oh, that’s their fault,” says the Babe, just as M. Grevy would say of disorder in the Chambers, the a statesman’s conviction that he is Babe meaning chk, Tom 01‘ Harry, the only person who can rule than empire. The Babe, like Mr. Glad- stone, is in his ouu eyes infallible. 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