This Antoine Riczi came to Jehane that August twilight in the hedged garden.

She answered, "No, my dearest,I am that Jehane, whose only title is the Constant Lover."

I am wishful to kill myself, Jehane.

Young Antoine Riczi likewise nursed his wound as best he might; but at the end of the second year after Jehane's wedding his uncle, the Vicomte de Montbrisona gaunt man, with preoccupied and troubled eyeshad summoned Antoine into Lyonnois and, after appropriate salutation, had informed the lad that, as the Vicomte's heir, he was to marry the Demoiselle Gerberge de Nérac upon the ensuing Michaelmas.

She sat alone, by prearrangement, to one end of the high-ceiled and radiant apartment; midway in the hall her lords and divers ladies were gathered about a saltatrice and a jongleur, who were diverting the courtiers, to the mincing accompaniment of a lute; but Jehane sat apart from these, frail, and splendid with many jewels, and a little sad.

"Jehane!" said Antoine Riczi, in a while, "have you, then, forgotten, O Jehane?"

"Jehane!" said Antoine Riczi, in a while, "have you, then, forgotten, O Jehane?"

Jehane is dead.

" "Jehane, do you remember that August twilight in Pampeluna when last I kissed you?

Then as now you wore a gown of green, Jehane.

" "It is true," she responded, "it is lamentably true that after to-night we are as different persons, you and I." He said: "Jehane, do you not love me any longer?

For your own sake, Jehane,ah, no, not for your sake nor for mine, but for the sake of that blithe Jehane, whom, so you tell me, time has slain!"

For your own sake, Jehane,ah, no, not for your sake nor for mine, but for the sake of that blithe Jehane, whom, so you tell me, time has slain!"

Yet I, at least, keep faith, and in your face I fling faith like a gloveold-fashioned, it may be, but clean,and I will go, Jehane.

And the following morning, being duly empowered, Antoine Riczi sailed for England in company with the Earl of Worcester; and upon Saint Richard's day the next ensuing was, at Eltham, as proxy of Jehane, married in his own person to the bloat King Henry, the fourth of that name to reign.

she wailedfor now the pride of Queen Jehane was shattered utterly"I am held as a prisoner for all that my chains are of gold.

With spirit Queen Jehane turned to meet them, and you saw that she was of royal blood, for now the pride of many emperors blazed and informed her body as light occupies a lantern.

"And in the gutter Jehane dares say what Queen Jehane upon the throne might never say.

"And in the gutter Jehane dares say what Queen Jehane upon the throne might never say.

and that the love of proud Jehane creeps like a beaten cur toward your feet, in the sight of common men!

Be contented with that knowledge, and, for Heaven's sake, do not endeavor to moralize over the ruin which Heaven has made, and justly made, of Queen Jehane, as I perceive you mean to do."

Jehane stood motionless save for the fine hands that plucked the air.

The King needed money for his wars in France, and failing the seizure of Jehane's enormous wealth, had exhausted every resource.

"Now the world knows you enjoy the favor of the Comte de Charolais; so get me an alliance with Burgundy against my imbecile brother of France, and Dame Jehane shall repossess her liberty.

as a man already dead I come to you, Jehane, for in France they thirst to murder me, and England has no further need of Montbrison, her blunted and her filthy instrument!"