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background, and were reduced to picking up intelligence as best they could without any sense of its being di

clipped wall of greenery, along which were disposed alternately busts upon pedestals, and stone vases of flowers, while beyond lay formal beds of flowers, the gravel walks between radiating from a fountain, at present quiescent

en through a diminishing glass. His sister was in a full-hooped dress, with tight long waist, and sleeves reaching to her elbows, the under skirt a pale pink, the upper a deeper rose colour; but stiff as was the attire, she had managed to give it a slight general air of disarrangement, to get her cap a little on one side, a stray curl loose on her forehead, to tear a bit of the dangling lace on her arms, and to splash her robe with a puddle. He was in air, feature, and complexion a perfect little dark Frenchman. The contour of her face, still more its rosy glow, were more in accordance with her surname, and so especially were the large deep blue eyes with the long dark lashes and pencilled brows. And there was a lively restless air about her full of intelligence, as she manoeuvred her brother towards a stone seat, guarded by a couple of cupids reining in sleepy-looking lions in stone, where, under the shade of a lime-tree, her little petticoa

ng to ye, mother! And

ile, to feast her eyes on her an' Lanty Callaghan, now he has shed the marmiton's slough, and come out in ol

lf and Ma?tre Hébert, the steward, will follow Madame la Comtesse beyond the four walls of Paris. "Will you desert us too, Laurent?" says the lady. "And is it me you mane, Madame," says I, "Sorrah a Callaghan ever deserted a Burke!" "Then," says she, "if you will go with us to Sweden, you shall have two lackey's suits, and a couple of louis d'or to cross your pocket with by the year, forbye the fee and bounty of all the visitors to M. le Comte." "Is it M. l'Abbé goes with Madame?" says I. "And why not," says she. "Then," s

d with a certain satisfacti

hot through the head by the masther's side in the weary wars in Spain? and whom could

e, mother?' still res

have a little arrand of her own, and ye might have a wo

ng, mother!'

he child in her lap-'could never bear the cold of that bare and dissolute place in the north you are bound for, and old Madame la Marquise, her mo

irely, mother,' said L

en their sons outgrow them. 'Fine talking! Much he cares fo

, gay trimmings to the black apron, dainty shoes and stockings that came tripping down the path. His tongue instantly changed to Frenc

rted. 'I never asked you

a cinder of my poor heart, when I am going away into the deso

een and gold, for the sake of the Paris cut; though a great

e heart of the mother, will it not be all the

s, broke in, 'Never mind, Laurent, Victorine goes with us. S

isembarrass myself of a g

was going, for Ma?tre Hébert had just co

in your arms and kissed me, and said you would f

oing to follow naughty little girls who invent follies? It is still free to me to change

h little Jacques in her arms, Victorine paced beside her, and Lanty as La Jeunesse fol

in Ireland, Sir Ulick Burke had attended James II. in his flight from Waterford; and his wife had followed him, attended by her

ng service in the armies of Louis XIV. Callaghan followed him everywhere, while Hon

and nurse had succumbed to the mortality which beset the children of that generation, and the only survivors besides the eldest Burke and one daughter were the two youngest o

ablished the House of Bourbon upon the throne of Spain, and the younger Ulick or Ulysse, as his name had been classicalised and Frenchified, was making his first campaign as a mere boy at the time of the battle of Almanza, that solitary British defeat, for which our national consolation is that the French were commanded by an Englishman, the Duke of Berwick, a

. The eldest son, young as he was, obtained as wife the daughter of the Marquis de Varennes, and

nd a half ago by the Huguenots, and there had never been any monks in it since, so the only effect was that little Phelim Burke went by the imposing title of Monsieur l'Abbé de St. Eudoce, and his family enjoyed as much of the revenues of the estates of the Abbey as the Intendant thought proper to transmit to them. He was, to a certain degree, ecclesiastically educated, having just memory enough to retain for recitation the tasks that Lanty helped him to learn, and he could copy the themes or translations made for him by his faithful companion. Neither boy had the least

s services. He was a gentle, amiable being, not at all fit to take care of himself; and since the death of his mother, he had been the charge of his brother and sister-in-law, or perhaps more correctly speaking, of the Dowager Marquise

on; moreover, Philip looked with longing eyes at his native kingdom of France, all claim to which he had resigned when Spain was bequeathed to him; but now that only a sickly child, Louis XV., stood between him an

Madrid, and there continued even after the war had broken out, and the Duke of Berwick, resigning a

d Ambassador to Sweden, and was anxious to

required of an ambassador. She strove, however, to have the children left with her; but her daughter declared that she could not part with Estelle, who was already a companio