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On the occasion of arded--or, rather, Fate had contrived that I should disregard--Chatellerault's suggestion that I should go with all the panoply of poith nificence all France had come to associate with my name, and thus dazzle by my brilliant lustre the lady I was come to win As you may reht,--wounded, bedraggled, and ofto provoke compassion rather than admiration

Not so now that I made my second visit I availed nificent," and rode into the courtyard of the Chateau de Lavedan preceded by twenty well-eous Saint-Pol liveries of scarlet and gold, with the Bardelys escutcheon broidered on the breasts of their doublets--on a field or a bar azure surcharged by three lilies of the field They were armed with swords and uard than of a co was in a ell timed I doubt if we could have stayed the execution of Saint-Eustache's warrant even had we arrived earlier But for effect--to produce a striking coup de theatre--we could not have cole, at the foot of the chateau steps: down these the Vicorihter, white of face and with tightly compressed lips, on the other Between these tomen--his wife and his child--as different in body as they were different in soul, caood colour, and a look of well-bred, lofty indifference to his fate

He disposed hie which was to bear him to prison with much the same air he would have assumed had his destination been a royal levee

Around the coach were grouped a score of hboys--ill-garbed and indifferently accoutred in dull breastplates and steel caps, , lank figure of the Chevalier himself, dressed with his wonted care, and perfumed, curled, and beribboned beyond belief His weak, boyish face sought by scowls and by the adoption of a grirouping in the quadrangle when my e, giving pause to those within, and drawing upon themselves the eyes of all, as they rode, two by two, under the old-world arch of the keep into the courtyard And Gilles, who knew our errand, and as as ready-witted a rogue as ever rode withhow oodly show, he whispered an order This resulted in the couples dividing at the gateway, one going to the left and one to the right, so that as they ca rein, they faced forward, confronting and half surrounding the Chevalier's company