. A little queen of hearts; an international story . he knew almost to acertainty that their long talk about Petite Reine of other days hadbeen with none other than La Grande Reine of to-day, and thecrimes of the dreadful Huntington seemed hardly worse, for themoment, than that of that most audacious Albert ! CHAPTER XV. A DARING SUGGESTION. IT was a close foggymorning in London,and Mr. Everett Bel-den, having breakfast-ed a whole hour earlierthan usual, stood gaz-ing out upon the streetfrom one of the win-dows of the ReformClub. It is two monthsnow since we let himgo his lonely way fromthe st
. A little queen of hearts; an international story . he knew almost to acertainty that their long talk about Petite Reine of other days hadbeen with none other than La Grande Reine of to-day, and thecrimes of the dreadful Huntington seemed hardly worse, for themoment, than that of that most audacious Albert ! CHAPTER XV. A DARING SUGGESTION. IT was a close foggymorning in London,and Mr. Everett Bel-den, having breakfast-ed a whole hour earlierthan usual, stood gaz-ing out upon the streetfrom one of the win-dows of the ReformClub. It is two monthsnow since we let himgo his lonely way fromthe steamer; and thismay surprise you, forwhat with the doingsup at Windsor and thecomplications in thecottage at Nuneham,you may not have keptany track of the the less is it truethat in all this while wehave not given so muchas a thought to or to aught thatconcerns him ; and forall I know it is just aswell. The little but-tons who keeps guardReform Club and the smartlyliveried Irishman who takes his place at night would both tell you. during the day at the door of the 158 A LITTLE QUEEN OF HEARTS. that Mr. Belden has come in and out all the while with great regu-larity, having his saddle horse brought around at precisely the samehour every clear morning, and going out for a walk at precisely thesame hour every afternoon. There is no evidence that in all theseWeeks he has been of the least real use to anybody, or that, notwith-standing his recent encounter with a little girl who had set himthinking rather seriously for a time, he had in any way altered ormodified his selfish way of living. They are creatures of habit theseself-centred old bachelors, and it takes a great deal to start themout along any new line of action, and doubly so when, like , they do not know what it is to feel buoyantly well andstrong. And so to all outward appearances there was no changewhatever in this particular old bachelor, and the little sermon Marie-Celeste had unconsciously
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