" Then turning to me he said, "The old lady inside has a meal of victuals ready for us.

"Jean's cart will take you as far as 'Les Trois Frères,'" said the old lady, cheerfully, after finding that counting the little heap of francs and half-francs over and over did not increase them.

Then did this saintly lady Abbess set her white hand on this my hateful head and prayed the sweet Christ to shield this my monstrous body, and I thereafter being bedight in right good mail (as thou seest) issued suddenly out of the tower whiles our foemen sat at meat, and ran among them roaring dreadfully and smote amain full many until my axe brake

"If you don't go at once," said the old lady, hastily, "I'll send for the police.

"The ladies upstairs," said La Fleur, "have been accustomed to fresh rolls every morning for their breakfast.

"They'll be looking for you!" "Let 'em look!" said the old lady, grimly.

Opposite Ben sat a handsomely dressed, somewhat portly lady, of middle age, with a kindly expression.

Carolyx: What is it, princely ladies?

Verty took off his white fur hat, and made the lady a low bow, and said "How do you do, Miss Lavinia?" "Thank you, Verty," said that lady, solemnly, "very well.

Still, however, the French ladies of the household forebore to censure their sovereign; and even sought to persuade the outraged Queen that when once she had given a Dauphin to France the favourite would be compelled to leave the palace; but Marie's Italian followers were far less scrupulous, and expressed their indignation in no measured terms.

She is a goodly Lady. Arn.

"Aye me, messire anchorite," said she smiling yet, "whence had you this poor folly?" Quoth Beltane gravely: "Lady, 'twas from one beyond all thought wise and learned.

CHAPTER XXIII A LADY IN THE DUSK Halfway between the turbid currents of the lower city and the more swiftly running streams to the northward sits Washington Square, an isle of rest amid the tides of humanity which lap its shores.

Mrs. Pumpelly soon convinced herself that Mrs. Wells also must be a very undesirable, if not hopelessly immoral lady.

" The Lady (indignantly).

"You kind lady.

Each family is obliged to keep a large staff of servants, and the lady of the house meddles very little in domestic matters, as these are generally altogether entrusted to the major-domo.

She had far rather have placed her daughter immediately under some kind matronly lady in a private household; but she knew that her good friend was always eager to promise to the utmost of her possible power.

Meantime the poor lady his mother was in her tower chamber, where she was busy to the last moment packing a little chest with such things as she knew her boy would need in his new life.

"Who have you here, Lady Roberts?" "One who has a request to make, I believe," said the lady, mildly.

"There is some expression in her face," said the old lady, musingly, "which makes me think of Marie Stuart's farewell to France.

Further, while a man will, as a rule, address others, even those inferior to himself, with a certain feeling of consideration and humanity, it is unbearable to see how proudly and disdainfully a lady of rank will, for the most part, behave towards one who is in a lower rank (not employed in her service) when she speaks to her.

"Eh bien!" said the lady, half tenderly, half reproachfully; "have you nothing to say to me?" Say to her, indeed!

She was no longer the self-revealed woman of the afternoon, but seemingly an affable, harmless old lady of the night on the boundary of her social world.

"What colour?" said the young lady at the counter, sharply.