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| Monsieur Beaucaire
By BOOTH TARKINGTON,
Author of ‘The Gentleman From Indiana’ and ‘‘The
Conguest of Canaan.”
Copyright, 1900, by McClure, Phillips & Co.
[Contintted from last week, |
“Ah, what radiance!” he cried. “Those people up over the sky,
they want to show they wish the earth to be happy, so they smile and
make this lady. Gold haired, an angel of heaven, and yet a Diana of
the chase! I see her fly by me on her great horse one day. She
touch his mane with her fingers. I buy that clipping from the groom.
TI have it here with my dear brother's picture. Ah, you! Oh, yes,
you laugh! What do you know? ’Twas all I could get. But I have
heard of the endeavor of M. le Due to recoup his fortunes. This alli-
ance shall fail. It is not the way—that heritage shall be safe’ from
him! It is you and me, monsieur! You can laugh! The war is
open’, and by me! There is one great step taken. Until tonight there
was nothing for you to ruin. Tomorrow you have got a noble of
France—your own protege—to besiege and sack. And you are to
lose, because you think such ruin easy and because you understand
nothing—far less—of divinity. How could you know? You have
not the fiber. The heart of a lady is a blank to you. You know noth-
ing of the vibration. There are some words that were made only to
tell of Lady Mary, for her alone—bellissima, divins, glorieuse! Ah,
how I have watch’ her! It is ead to me when I see her surround’ by
your yo’ng captains, your nobles, your rattles, your beaux—ha, ha !—
and I mus’ hol’ far aloof. Tt is sad for me, but oh, jus’ to watch her
and to wonder! Strange it is, but I have almos’ ery out with rapture
at a look I have see’ her give another man, so beautiful it was, so ten-
der, so dazzling of the eyes and so mirthful of the lips. Ah, divine
coquetry! A look for another, ah-i-me, for many others! and even
to you one day a rose, while I—I, monsieur, could not even be so
blessed as to be the groun’ beneath her little shoe! But tonight,
monsieur—ha, ha l—tonight, monsieur, you and me, two princes, M.
le Duc de Winterset and M. le Duc de Chateaurien—ha, ha! You
gee? We are goin’ arm in arm to that ball, and I am goin’ have one
of those looks—I! And a rose! I! Itis time. But ten minute’,
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monsieur. I make my apology to keep you waitin’ so long while I
go in the nex’ room and execute my poor mustachio—that will be my
only murder for jus’ this one evening—and inves’ myself in white
satin. Ha, ha! I shall be very gran’, monsieur. Francois, send
Louis to me. Vietor, to order two chairs for monsieur and me. We
are goin’ out in the worl’ tonight!”
CHAPTER IL
HE chairmen swarmed in the street at Lady Mal-
bourne’s door, where the joyous vulgar fought with
muddled footmen and tipsy link boys for places of
vantage whence to catch a glimpse of quality and of
raiment at its utmost. Dawn was in the east, and
the guests were departing. Singly or in pairs, glit-
tering in finery, they came mincing down the steps,
the ghost of the night's smirk fading to jadedness as they sought the
dark recesses of their chairs. From within sounded the twang of fid-
dles still swinging manfully at it, and the windows were bright with
the light of many candles. When the door was flung open to call the
chair of Lady Mary Carlisle there was an eager pressure of the
throng to see.
A small, fair gentleman in white satin came out upon the steps,
turned and bowed before a lady who appeared in the doorway, a lady
whose royal loveliness was given to view for a moment in that glowing
frame. The crowd sent up a hearty English cheer for the beauty of
Bath.
The gentleman smiled upon them delightedly. “What enchanting
people!” he cried. “Why did I not know, so I might have shout’ with
them?’ The lady noticed the people not at all. Whereat, being
| pleased, the people choered again. The gentleman offered her his
hand. She made a slow courtesy ; placed the tips of her fingers upon
his own. “I am honored, M. de Chateaurien,” she said.
“No, no!” he cried earnestly. “Behol’ a poor Frenchman whom
emperors should envy.” Then reve ently and with the pride of his
gallant office vibrant in every line of his light figure, invested in white
satin and very grand, as he had prophesied, M. le Due de Ohateaurien
handed Lady Mary Carlisle down the steps, an achievement which had
figured in the ambitions of seven other gentlemen during the evening.
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THE CROWD SENT UP A HEARTY ENGLISH CHEER FOR THE
BEAUTY OF BATH
“Am I to be lef’ in such onhappiness?’ he said in a low voice.
“That rose I have beg’ for so long”—
“Never!” said Lady Mary.
“Ah, I do not deserve it, I know so well! But”—
“Never!”
“Tt is the greatness of my onworthiness that alone can claim your
charity. Let your kin’ heart give this little red rose, this great alms,
‘to the poor beggar.”
“Never!”
She was seated in the chair. “Ah, give the rose,” he whispered.
Her beauty shone dazzlingly on him out of the dimness.
“Never!” she flashed defiantly as she was closed in. “Never!”
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“Never!”
The rose fell at his feet.
“A rose lasts till morning,” said a voice behind him.
Turning, M. de Chateaurien looked beamingly upon the face of
the Duke of Winterset.
“Tis already the daylight,” he replied, pointing to the east.
“Monsieur, was it not enough honor for you to han’ out madame, the
aunt of Lady Mary? Lady Rellerton retain’ much trace of beauty.
*Tis strange you did not appear more happy.”
“The rose is of an unlucky color, I think,” observed the duke.
“The color of a blush, my brother.”
“Unlucky, I still maintain,” said the other calmly.
“The color of the veins of a Frenchman. Ha, ha!” cried the
young man. “What price would be too high? A rose is a rose! A
good night, my brother, a good night. I wish you dreams of roses, red
roses, only beautiful red, red roses!”
“Stay! Did you see the look she gave these street folk when they
‘shouted for her? And how are you higher than they, when she
‘knows? As high as yonder horse boy!”
“Red roses, my brother, only
‘ved roses!” i
roses. I wish you dreams of red,
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WHAT TRAIN DO YOU TAKE?
In Wiring Give Its Number, Name of
Road and Time of Arrival.
When you telegraph a friend the
next time you are going to visit him
and that you'd be delighted to have
him meet you at the train the next day,
for heaven's sake telegraph him intelll-
jently.
If the money, irritations and disap-
pointments of the year were aggre-
gated for the United States in hope-
lessiy unintelligible telegrams of this
kind, the average political economist
would have a fit. When the average
person in the small city or town de-
cides on the jump to go to see a friend
in the city and decides to telegraph
that friend what train to meet, he be-
comes an unconscious imbecile.
Will leave for Chicago tonight on 8:30
train, Meet me.
This is the text of a ten word mes-
sage which I received the other night
from a friend in an Ohio city. He had
started for Chicago before the tele-
gram was received by me, and while I
wanted immensely to meet him at the
station instead of making the least ef-
fort to do so I took it out in swearing.
In sending a telegram announcing an
arrival the name of the road and the
train number are the two absolute es-
sentials. It will be a help to the recip-
fent of the message in most cases if
the time of the arrival of the train be
given also. Frequently, as between the
two stations involved in such a mes-
sage, a difference of one hour in stand-
ard time otherwise might confuse. But
as between the number of the train
and the numerals in the hour of ar-
rival the telegrapher has a chance of
error, and in writing the message
these two sets of numerals should be
separated by the name of the road.
Taking the ten word message as the
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| going anywhere from any station on
| any railroad may use the one set form
of telegraphic announcement of ar-
rival:
Arrive No. 5, Lake Shore, due 8 o'clock
Monday morning.
Ordinarily no possible further infor-
mation is necessary in the greatest
railway center in America. The train
number is unchangeable on its own
system. Any railway employee any-
where will identify the train in a mo-
ment. If the recipient of the telegram
wishes to know whether the train is
on time before he starts to the station,
he can learn in a moment over the tel-
ephone by asking about No. J, and in
the query he will have the readier re-
sponse for the reason that his inform-
ant will be grateful for the inquirer’s
succinct knowledge of train operations.
—H, W. Field in Chicago Tribune,
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