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... JVo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER V. continued. This studied insolence was exactly wiiat Andre required. I thank you, he said freezingly, but before I take your place you and I, Monsieur le Chevalier, will have a word first. As you please, my dear Vicomte, said the young man swinging comfortably on to the table and jieering at him from under his saucy plumes. You will have much to say ...

... JVo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER VIII. THE VIVAXDIERK OF FOXTEXOY. The sun of spring had set on. May 10, 1745, the eve of a day memorable in the military annals of the British and French nations. Behind a camp fire in the entrenchments of Fontenoy Andre warmed himself, one of the many camp fires which flared into the dusk on that plain which for two centuries has been the cockpit of Europe ...

... JSo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER X. continued. The Maréchal had grasped the fact. Dutch and Austrians had made a second effort on their right and centre and it had failed. The English were alone, and with consummate coolness he played his last card. Guns, horses, men, are feverishly brought up from Fontenoy, and while the Irish brigade, six battalions strong-- men once British subjects but ...

... JSTo. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER XIV. TWO PAGES IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. The curtain over the alcove was very cautiously lifted. Madame de Pompadour looked up from her papers. Good afternoon, Vicomte, she smiled. I was expecting you; you observe I am alone. Expecting me, madame Andre demanded, astonished. To be sure: expecting you to report your account of this baffling affair in the woods ...

... ffo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER XY1I. continued Two days had passed since that painful evening when he had parted from her in the Salle des Gardes de la Reine. He had proved his chivalry; he had triumphantly vindicated her honour; why did he not give her the opportunity to show that his conduct had appealed both to her pride and her heart? Why had he not come to ask and to receive ...

... J*o. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER XX. continued She slammed the door behind her and admired her self in the mirror while George Onslow's glowing eves gloated on the superb picture that the mirror and she made under the blazing candles. You are a wonderiul woman, he said soltly. I am not a woman, I am only a number. As 1 think 1 told you when I saw you last in London. She wheeled suddenly. And ...

... Jfo. 101. By Wymond Carey. CHAPTER XXIV. A WISHED-FOR MIRACLE. The wished-for miracle had happened after all. Yet the news that the King had suddenly fainted, which spread like wildfire through the palace, was at first made light of. The King, said the Abbé de St. Victor, likes to show a touch of human and feminine weakness; he faints as women do to relieve the ennui of perpetual flattery ...

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