A magnificent chatelaine and all that, but too cold for my taste.

So did I, yestere'en, upon my knightly word, pledge her my troth, so shall she be henceforth my lady of Alain and chatelaine of divers goodly castles, manors, and demesnes.

" "You ought to have been a chatelaine of the fourteenth century," said Nan.

but Madame de Sévénié remained its undisputed chatelaine, a belated spirit of the ancien régime, stubbornly set against the conveniences of this degenerate age.

Princes and fair chatelaines in their wide domains with castle and chase and delicate pleasaunce, liege-men bound to them by more than the feudal ties of service.

TO GERTRUDE McCALL CHATELAINE OF MAC MANOR

[Footnote 1: It was in April that I first heard of the Theory from the Chatelaine.

The Chatelaine of a certain sugar plantation in Louisiana, in preparing a list of guests for her house-party, discovered, in one of those explosive moments of inspiration, that all people were easily divided into two fundamental groups or families, the Sulphites and the Bromides.

What, then, made the Chatelaine's theory remarkable, when Civilization has wearied itself with distinctions?

But it took but a short conversation with the Chatelaine to demonstrate the fact that the words were inevitable, and the rapid increase in their use has proved them something more real than slangan acceptable and accepted terminology.

The innumerable rooms of Saint Desert were furnished with the embroidered hangings and tapestry chairs produced by generations of diligent chatelaines, and the untiring needles of the old Marquise, her daughters and dependents were still steadily increasing the provision.

The chatelaine, herself, found time hang heavily on her hands.

One of these distractions took the shape of Courts of Love, where the bored but literary chatelaine discussed delicate problems of conduct pertaining to the heart.

These virtues they took so seriously that we find the Chatelaine of Vergi dying because she believed her lover to have betrayed her trust.

The originals of these narratives are to be found in Roquefort's edition of the Poésies de Marie de France; in a volume of the Nouvelles Françoises en Prose, edited by Moland and D'Héricault; and in M. Gaston Raynaud's text of La Chatelaine de Vergi.

THE CHATELAINE OF VERGI

XVII THE CHATELAINE OF VERGI

Neither time nor place was met, till Pentecost was come, and the Duke held high Court, commanding to the feast all the ladies of his realm, amongst the first that lady, his niece, who was the Chatelaine of Vergi.

She deemed her hour had come, and having no longer the power to refrain her lips, she said gaily, as if in jest, "Chatelaine, array yourself very sweetly, since there is a fair and worthy lord you have to please.

The chatelaine remained in the chamber.

The chatelaine flung herself upon the bed, bewailing her evil plight, for she was exceedingly sorrowful.

" When the chatelaine had thus spoken she kept silence, save only that she said in sighing, "Sweet friend, I commend you to God.

Marmion Moore halted upon the stairs and felt mechanically for her gold chatelaine.

The dress to which this ruff was attached was of the most gorgeous description, the materials employed being either cloth of gold or silver, or velvet trimmed with ermine; while chains of jewels confined it across the breast, descending from thence to the waist, where they formed a chatelaine reaching to the feet.

It is bound in brown leather and has the same arms and coronet upon it that my chatelaine hasthe arms of Ambrosine Eustasie de Calincourt and an "A. E. de C." entwined, all tooled in faded gold.