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Another was before thelided across the polished floor to the spot where trouble was brewing

"Gentlemen, for shame!" she cried Her voice was bell-like in its clear

sweetness, final in its grave rebuke and its recall to sense and decency

She was Mistress Evelyn Byrd, who held sovereignty in Virginia, and at the

sound of her voice, the command of her raised hand, the cla, fell back as from the presence of

its veritable queen

Evelyn went up to Audrey and took her by the hand "I a, as were those ladies who have left us," she said, with a sentle I Let

us finish out this esture of command the lines that had so su the ing sound, and beneath the long arch of

protecting steel moved to the music the tomen, the dark beauty and the

fair, the princess and the herdgirl Evelyn led, and Audrey, following,

knew that now indeed she alking in a dream

A very few moments, and the measure was finished A smile, a curtsy, a

wave of Evelyn's hand, and the dancers, disbanding, left the floor Mr

Corbin, Mr Everard, and Mr Travis, each had a word to say to Mr Haward

of Fair View, as they passed that gentleman