Traitor and True

of Champagne until Lorraine was entered--Lorraine, which,

and night the members of that cavalcade rode on and accomplished some thirty miles at a slow pace so as to spare their horses as much as possible, while halting in the even

of the nobility when travelling; La Truaumont took his alone behind another screen close by, while the soi-disant, or, it may be, the act

by this insolent La Truaumont, I would be well content with the office. This ride through the air of Champagne is good for our health, the food and drink is wholesome and ample, the absence of expense

well paid, you sleep warm and soft o' nights and eat and drink of the best, and all you have to do is to ride by my side and listen to my sweet converse and hold your babbling tongue

ch was getting husky with the Avize, when suddenly Boisfl

madame good-night. He kissed her hand and, me damne! kisses slyly the ear of the girl, d'Angelis. Ha! Ha! The kiss, the En

e down the great inn-room which was part hall, and, at the end, part ki

pint of this wine will not make me sleep heavily. I'll

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f the Scoriatis, had some few years before this made almost a similar journey to France, there to marry her countryman the Duc de Castellucchio, a man whose family

once powerful adventurers might well have expected to overtake them, the family thrived and prospered. Steering clear of political machinations until the Concinis were

death of Richelieu, they attached themselves to his fortunes, while, as he grew all po

Duc de Castellucchio (he having decided to confer honour on his birthplace by taking its name for his title),

and by dragging his wife out of her own bed by the hair to look for the apparition; by not allowing any footmen to be in his service who were under seventy, in case his wife should fall in love with them, and by breaking up all the statues he owned (which his father had collected at an enormous cost) since he proclaimed such things to be heathen and profligate, he proceeded to greater extremities. He invariabl

, on the usual plea that they were not fit for modest people to gaze upon, while, not six months before this flight took place, he invited his wife to go for a drive with him in their coach one afternoon, and, when they had set out, cal

ss turned for assistance when she determined to finally quit it, while for a companion in

phrey, and her hopes for a happy future with him, she would not only have accompanied the Duchess

whatsoever, and no interest in life except to be by the side of the girl he loved so well, he had made interest with De Beaurepaire and the Duchess--both

longer than a year ago. He was young and good looking enough to win any woman's fancy, while, beside his suffi

eyes from, and being unwilling to see, all that went on around her. For, while the girl was as beautiful as though she had just left some canvas painted by Correggio, she was, partly and principally owing to her own nature and partly to her English mother's training, almost as pure as though she had just left that mother's side. Similarly, as neither late ni

e house of De Beaurepaire's mother. This strangely assorted band consisting of a woman of high rank in two countries, a young girl whose life had be

rner, a more wicked purpose: a more profound and horrible reason for their being on the road. The purpose of reaching a city outside the King's dominions, a Republican city in which no sympathies for a monarch or a mon

ait their arrival; spying on all their movements and communicating those movements to De Beaurepaire as she learnt them, went a woman whose mad love