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Fleur-de-Lys raised her beautiful eyes, full of reproach, "Is that all of which you can assure me?" she said, in a low voice

In thetowards each other and whispering, said as she toyed with the clasps of her prayer-book,-"Touching picture of love!"

The captain, more and more embarrassed, fell back upon the subject of the tapestry,--"'Tis, in sooth, a char work!" he exclaimed

Whereupon Colombe de Gaillefontaine, another beautiful blonde, with a white skin, dressed to the neck in blue damask, ventured a timid remark which she addressed to Fleur-de-Lys, in the hope that the handsome captain would reply to it, "My dear Gondelaurier, have you seen the tapestries of the Hôtel de la Roche-Guyon?"

"Is not that the hotel in which is enclosed the garden of the Lingère du Louvre?" asked Diane de Christeuil with a laugh; for she had handsohed on every occasion

"And where there is that big, old tower of the ancient wall of Paris," added Amelotte de Montmichel, a pretty fresh and curly-headed brunette, who had a habit of sighing just as the other laughed, without knohy

"My dear Colombe," interpolated Daed to Monsieur de Bacqueville, in the reign of King Charles VI? there are indeed h warp tapestries there"

"Charles VI! Charles VI!"his ood dame does remember!"

Madame de Gondelaurier continued, "Fine tapestries, in truth A work so esteeère de Champchevrier, a slender little h the trefoils of the balcony, exclaimed, "Oh! look, fair God on the pave the taeois!"

The sonorous vibration of a taypsy fro carelessly toward the square

"Look! look!" exclaie of the balcony, while Fleur-de-Lys, rendered thoughtful by the coldness of her betrothed, followed them slowly, and the latter, relieved by this incident, which put an end to an e conversation, retreated to the farther end of the room, with the satisfied air of a soldier released fro and noble service, and such it had forradually becoe cooled him more every day Moreover, he was of a fickle disposition, and, h of very noble birth, he had contracted in his official harness more than one habit of the common trooper The tavern and its accoross language, allantries, facile beauties, and successes yet more easy He had, nevertheless, received from his family some education and some politeness of , he had been in garrison at too early an age, and every day the polish of a gentleh friction of his gendar to visit her from time to time, from a remnant of common respect, he felt doubly embarrassed with Fleur-de-Lys; in the first place, because, in consequence of having scattered his love in all sorts of places, he had reserved very little for her; in the next place, because, amid so many stiff, formal, and decent ladies, he was in constant fear lest his mouth, habituated to oaths, should suddenly take the bit in its teeth, and break out into the language of the tavern The effect can be iined!