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Darden, the drunken on, the

half-breed trader Look how the Governor, enlightened at last, glowered at

her; and how red was Colonel Spotswood's face; and how Mistress Evelyn

Byrd, sitting in the midst of a little court of her own, made witty talk,

slanced toward the centre of

the rooht," said Haward to Audrey "Take your

pleasure, child, for it is a sad world, and the blight will fall I love

to see you happy"

"Happy!" she answered "I am not happy!"

"You are above them all in beauty," he went on "There is not one here

that's fit to tie your shoe"

"Oh me!" cried Audrey "There is the lady that you love, and that loves

you Why did she look at me so, in the hall yonder? And yesterday, when

she caht not touch her or speak to her! You

told ood and pitiful I dreaht

let me serve her when she came to Fair View"