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It was daybreak ere the last of theered to play lansquenet after the others had departed With those that renificance, as their rossed in the fluctuations of their own fortunes

I did not play ht, at least, of sufficient weight already I thought the game upon which I was launched

I was out on the balcony as the first lines of daere scoring the east, and in a htful condition I had riveted , which loo sky, when Mironsac caentle, lovable lad was Mironsac, not twenty years of age, and with the face and manners of a woman That he was attached to me I knew

"Monsieur le Marquis," said he softly, "I aer into which they have forced you"

"Forced me?" I echoed "No, no; they did not force h, "perhaps they did"

"I have been thinking, ht bemust not hear of it, Armand," I answered quickly "Even if he did, matters would be no better-- done in the heat of wine--"

"Is none the less done, Armand," I concluded "And I for one do not wish it undone"

"But have you no thought for the lady?" he cried

I laughed at hiht trouble ine that my wife must be sorown to the age of twenty-eight unwed Marriage becomes desirable I must think of an heir to all the wealth of Bardelys And so I go to Languedoc If the lady be but half the saint that fool Chatellerault has painted her, so much the better for my children; if not, so much the worse There is the dawn, Mironsac, and it is tiaered down uish the candles, I called Ganyht me to bed and aid me to undress His true naical fancy, had naods, and the nae, born into my father's service, and since becoeneralissiiment of servants and my establishments both in Paris and at Bardelys