"But, my dear friend," said Constance to Valentine, "didn't our good Doctor Boutan tell you that all the trouble came from your not nursing your children yourself?

And they found Constance in a little drawing-room hung with yellow satin, a room to which she was very partial.

It was he who had attended Constance at the birth of that much-spoiled only son, and Marianne at the advent of the four children she already had.

" It was Maurice's room; it was the bed in which Maurice had died, and which Constance with maternal piety had kept unchanged, consecrating the room to her son's memory.

Fair Constance of Rome, by Anthony Munday, Richard Hathwaye, Michael Drayton, and Thomas Dekker.

" Constance for her part had been dazzled.

The Countess was determined to get Constance off her hands; Constance was determined to have me; and you were determined to stick up for your own notions of love and honeysuckles.

Gerson, a celebrated French priest, and chancellor of the university of Paris, distinguished himself in the Council of Constance by the eloquence with which he pleaded for the Immaculate Conception, and the enthusiasm with which he preached in favour of instituting a festival in honour of this mystery, as well as another in honour of Joseph, the husband of the Virgin.

What do you think of the one of Constance on the opposite page?" "She looks as if she were trying to be as lugubrious as possible.

Lady Constance, by a look, had made her aware that she was considered intrusive, whereupon she had first stared Lady Constance out of countenance, and then deliberately scanned her work with an expression which conveyed a low opinion of its merit.

The abbot Bernard thought it necessary to caution the Bishop of Constance against him; but the man who had been condemned by the Pope found protection there from the papal legate, Cardinal Guido, who, indeed, made him a member of his household and companion of his table.

and Constance under cover of her handkerchief showed the ring.

Mathieu and Boutan watched beside Constance until daybreak.

I must avoid the Lady Clare, and separate Constance from the nuns.