. The Sweet Briar Magazine. ?is dot.—Tout est renferme la dedans; et sansdot tient lieu de heaute, de jeunesse, de naissance,Yhoiuieur, de sagesse, et de prohite. In the same way he wishes to sacrifice Cleante to hisself-interest. Even in what he is pleased to term hislove for Mariane, he is still ruled by selfishness. In-capable of real love, he admires the girl, and his in-satiable rapacity makes him desire her, just as hemight desire any bit of property which happened toplease his fancy. But he is unwilling to marry herwithout a dowry, he never shows the slightest consid-eration or generosi
. The Sweet Briar Magazine. ?is dot.—Tout est renferme la dedans; et sansdot tient lieu de heaute, de jeunesse, de naissance,Yhoiuieur, de sagesse, et de prohite. In the same way he wishes to sacrifice Cleante to hisself-interest. Even in what he is pleased to term hislove for Mariane, he is still ruled by selfishness. In-capable of real love, he admires the girl, and his in-satiable rapacity makes him desire her, just as hemight desire any bit of property which happened toplease his fancy. But he is unwilling to marry herwithout a dowry, he never shows the slightest consid-eration or generosity towards her, or abates in theleast his miserliness, and he utterly ignores her senti-ments in the matter; it is nothing to him that hemakes both the object of his professed love andCleante miserable, so long as his will and his wishesare obeyed. Finally, he refuses to share in the gen-eral rejoicing, but prefers the society of his cherecassette/ Emma Wilson Morriss, 11. THE SWEET BRIAR MAGAZINE 17 9t tfte Kings CommanD. HE snow was falling in heavy swirls whichblinded the eye and chilled the very mar-row, while the dense mist of late afternoonwas fast changing into an inky blacknesslike the gaping jaws of the was something ominous and un-canny in the oppressive silence that pervaded all, as if thoworld were hushed and breathless whilst only the spirits ofdarkness moved abroad. Through such a storm Bertrandof Arundel, with some twenty men-at-arms, was attemptingto force a passage. With difficulty they managed to keeptogether, and, in the thick veil which overhung the wholeearth, they were so hopelessly entangled that they had lostall bearings. Strange night for a ride; and yet the businessthat sent Bertrand abroad on such a night was urgent,awakening all the devil within him, and working him to sucha white heat of passion that he did not feel the bitter lady in the case—for even in those rude times the say-ing heli good, cherchez la femme—was t
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