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The poor dahter, like any other silly mother, did not perceive the officer's lack of enthusiasm, and strove in low tones to call his attention to the infinite grace hich Fleur-de-Lys used her needle or wound her skein

"Co him by the sleeve, in order to speak in his ear, "Look at her, do! see her stoop"

"Yes, truly," replied the young lacial and absent-ed to bend down again, and Daay and char face than that of your betrothed? Can one be more white and blonde? are not her hands perfect? and that neck--does it not assu fashion? How I envy you at tihty libertine that you are! Is not my Fleur-de-Lys adorably beautiful, and are you not desperately in love with her?"

"Of course," he replied, still thinking of so," said Madarown very timid"

We can assure our readers that timidity was neither the captain's virtue nor his defect But he made an effort to do as de Fleur-de-Lys, "what is the subject of this tapestry hich you are fashioning?' "Fair cousin," responded Fleur-de-Lys, in an offended tone, "I have already told you three tirotto of Neptune"

It was evident that Fleur-de-Lys saw h the captain's cold and absent- some conversation

"And for whom is this Neptunerie destined?"

"For the Abbey of Saint-Antoine des Cha her eyes

The captain took up a corner of the tapestry

"Who,out his cheeks to their full extent and blowing a trumpet?"

"'Tis Triton," she replied

There was a rather pettish intonation in Fleur-de-Lys's-- laconic words The young man understood that it was indispensable that he should whisper soallant coly he bent down, but he could find nothing in his iination more tender and personal than this,-"Why does your ns, like our grandmothers of the tier the fashion, and that the hinge (gond) and the laurel (laurier) e er sit thus on their banners, I assure you"