His wife was Marguerite of Lorraine, who originated the first Fronde insurrection; his daughter turned the scale of the second.

A bunch of butter-cups and forget-me-nots was fastened to her girdle, and she had placed a few marguerites in her hair.

The death of relatives presently carried Emmanuel and Marguerite to Spain, and their return was delayed by the birth of a child.

He lived in this condition for some time, expressing all his affection and gratitude to Marguerite by pressing her hand with his cold fingers.

Thus, when Mathieu saw her erect once more and smiling, with her dear little Marguerite at her breast, he embraced her passionately, and triumphed once again over every sorrow and every pang.

"I knew his honest and upright nature!" exclaimed Marguerite with energy!

As soon as they discovered him, the Marguerites with a common impulse linked their arms endearingly.

It was, of course, coincidence that this afternoon Mary Coombe should offer to gather the marguerites for Esther and that, the Saturday help having failed to materialise, Esther was glad of the offer which left her free to help Aunt Amy in the kitchen.

This is just the bare factbut it is enough to show how the lie of a worthless womankept Marguerite from happiness.

Of this union a son had been born, possessed, however, of less patience and self-control than his unhappy parents, who, after having clung to Marguerite through good and evil fortune, now found themselves abandoned to all the miseries of poverty and neglect.

"Madam" [the name given to Marguerite as ruler of the Low Countries], wrote the Florentine minister to Lorenzo de' Medici, "asks for nought but war against the Most Christian king; she thinks of nought but keeping up and fanning the kindled fire, and she has all the game in her hands, for the King of England and the emperor have full confidence in her, and she does with them just as she pleases."