St Nicholas [serial] . but he was not the man to take suchan answer as the last. From that day forwardhe plagued her with his love. Never were they I90Q.] THE REFUGEE 145 alone for an instant that he did not remind her ofit. Her mind was made up, she said; she did notlove him. Very well, then, he was satisfied towait; he had already learned enough of patienceat the hand of Fate. Indeed, this was the stringthat he loved best of all to touch. He strove toplay upon her pity for his trials, and, like Othello,tried to make her love him for the dangers hehad passd. But, all the same, with no success
St Nicholas [serial] . but he was not the man to take suchan answer as the last. From that day forwardhe plagued her with his love. Never were they I90Q.] THE REFUGEE 145 alone for an instant that he did not remind her ofit. Her mind was made up, she said; she did notlove him. Very well, then, he was satisfied towait; he had already learned enough of patienceat the hand of Fate. Indeed, this was the stringthat he loved best of all to touch. He strove toplay upon her pity for his trials, and, like Othello,tried to make her love him for the dangers hehad passd. But, all the same, with no success. Things had come to this pass in the autumn ofthe following year, by which time the French hadmade away with their King, Louis XVI, and theirbeautiful Queen, Marie Antoinette. The Reign ofTerror was at its height. Many of the survivingmembers of the French aristocracy had taken uparms in the ranks of the allies; but the Vicomtedes Ormeaux showed no inclination to leave thepeaceful valley of the Stour. On the contrary,. DURING THAT FIRST MEAL THE FRENCHMAN HELD THEIR CLOSE ATTENTION BY AN INCESSANT FLOW OF TALK. She admired him as a man of courage, of thatmuch she was sure; yet she was also consciousthat she hated him, though she could not give areason why. Her father noticed her antipathy, and upbraidedher upon it. Des Ormeaux, he said, was a bravesoldier and a highly cultured gentleman. He wasa type of the old French nobility that the Revolu-tion had rooted up. It would become her betterto show some distress in his misfortunes and alittle feminine admiration that he bore them allso well. Sometimes he even thus addressed her before theVicomte himself. And then would the Vicomtedeceive him by never failing to take her part, mak-ing light before her father of the very deeds thathe was always magnifying for her private XXXVII. —19. he seemed to have made himself completely athome at Nether Hall. He had a room of his own,where he would sit and read for hours. He de-ligh
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