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The echo of French country architecture as evinced in the "maisons de plaisance" and "rendezvous de chasse" scattered up and down the France of monarchial times lives until to-day, scarcely fainter than when the note was originally sounded.
"And what about the cutter, Sir Henry?" said Hilary quietly. "She is our lawful prize," was the reply. "And no mistake," said the rough, harsh voice, which Hilary recognised now as that of the apparently stupid skipper of the chasse maree. "Come up first, Mr Leigh," said Sir Henry; "but leave your arms below. I give you my word that you shall not be hurt."
Hilary Leigh was astounded, for knowing what he did he expected that the lieutenant would have instantly divined what seemed patent to him that Sir Henry Norland was trying, for some reason or another, to get back to England, and that although the lugger was commanded by an Englishman, she was undoubtedly a French chasse maree from Saint Malo.
Catherine, is the famous old Hospital of St. Jean, the red-brick walls of which rise sleepily from the dull waters of the canal, just as Queens' College, or St. John's, at Cambridge, rise from the sluggish Cam. Here is preserved the rich shrine, or chasse, "resembling a large Noah's ark," of St.
Cloud, with the setting sun shining through the fine old trees, to hear of all the fetes that used to take place there, and one could quite well fancy the beautiful Empress appearing at the end of one of the long avenues, followed by a brilliant suite of ladies and ecuyers, and the echoes of the cor de chasse in the distance.
As the grand "chasse" had been arranged to come off on the third day after their arrival, our young hunters determined to employ the interval in ranging the neighbouring woods; not with any expectation of finding a bear as their host did not believe there was any so near but rather for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the character of the North American sylva.
'One of our political prisoners an insurgent from Raiatea, said the Resident; and then to the jailer: 'I thought I had ordered him a new pair of trousers. Meanwhile no other convict was to be seen 'Eh bien, said the Resident, 'ou sont vos prisonniers? 'Monsieur le Resident, replied the jailer, saluting with soldierly formality, 'comme c'est jour de fete, je les ai laisse aller a la chasse. They were all upon the mountains hunting goats!
The bombardment squadrons are made up of slow machines with great carrying capacity, such as the Voisin; the pursuit or battle squadrons the escadrilles de chasse are composed of small and very fast 'planes, such as the Spad and Nieuport; while the general utility squadrons, used for reconnoissance, artillery regulation, and photographing, usually consist of medium-speed, two-passenger machines like the Farman and the Caudron.
She had had a diamond crescent in her hair like Diana. The Marquise de Gallifet was lovely in light-green tulle, with an aigret of diamonds in her blond hair. The table was arranged most appropriately for the occasion, decorated by the whole biscuit de Sevres service de chasse. Every one seemed gay and stimulated by the excitement of the day.
There was no one capable of forming it in the province, where no music was ever heard but that of the local band, which played nothing but marches, or on its good days selections from Adolphe Adam, and the church organist who played romanzas, and the exercises of the young ladies of the town who strummed a few valses and polkas, the overture to the Caliph of Bagdad, la Chasse du Jeune Henri, and two or three sonatas of Mozart, always the same, and always with the same mistakes, on instruments that were sadly out of tune.
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