Lady Evelyn — page 167: what you’re looking at

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60 + Mignonnette’s Secret. “He mioke ike a courtier and bowed like | a gets arid carried himself with a erave and lofty grace that was the awe and admiration of all who knew. him. Where he came from, Wirat his past history might have been, were dead secrets. 3 “He was the most silent and reticent of men, and no one dared question the haughty stranger, who looked with such a proud, grand seigneur elance upon all who came near him. They set him down for an Englishman ; but even that was only supposition. “Well, this handsome and haughty teacher of English ‘and mathematics boarded in the house of a Toronto me- chanic—a poor man, a Frenchman—named Chateauney, because, I suppose, he was too poor to board at a hotel. - Monsieur Chateauney had one daughter—beautiful as all the angels, so I have heard—yjust seventeen—my age, now, Mike—impulsive, impassioned, headstrong, wayward— all that there is of the reckless and wild, if-you will. She saw this beautiful English prince every day, and she fell in love with him—as ‘these passionate, fhery natures will love—madly. And he—he looked at her with great, blue, weary eyes—eyes that saw her beauty—and never thought of it any more than if it had been wax or ‘wood. _ “That drove her to desperation, and she—it was a mad and unwomanly thing to do, my good Mike—she soon changed all that. She made him look at her; she made “him know how fiercely. she loved him. She was fierce as a little leopard: If she lost him, she should die! “Monsieur ' Robert Drummond listened-to the frantic words of the’frantic girl before him in pale amaze. He was grave and startled for a moment, then he ‘broke into a faint, strange sort of laugh. ( “What does it matter?’ he said. - ‘I might as well, and she’s really very pretty! © Thanks,’ my beauty | This is an unexpected honor; but if it will ‘make you happy, why, ‘TI dare say I might as well marry as not. Only, I warn “you, I’m a poor man, and likely to remain so all my life. ‘Tf that be no drawback, why, 1 am very much at your "service |” 72 * “A strangé wooing, was it not, Mike? nae three vee 4 pie Madémoiselle Chateauney, looking. beautiful “in hie: and orange flowers, went. to, godt and ecame. om “Madame epbert ‘Drummond. - cas | comi ‘on : nts +s “| Av eo be Le ‘a aN od ee a ie £3 wT e ee sa) mye ty, lags 1H, spev pias, La ar’ ik oe “ eige ‘ wa ARS i A Be Dayit Ale Ay £ A ae | TOY ae Soy Bes ee ee aN me ft, igh ie oe a a Ce LT es ge ae aw, par 69 7 Me es ee ORE ROPE ey ai Su Tate eng ee We ae wo} re yt! ay, Ree