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At three o'clock a tremendous roar of fire in the direction of Fort Dupres burst out, as some seven or eight thousand of the insurgents, among whom were a number of Arabs, poured out from the nearest gate to endeavour to carry the battery, while at the same moment a tremendous musketry fire from the minarets and roof of the Mosque of Hassan, and from the houses near the wall, was poured at the French artillerymen, to prevent them from working their guns upon their assailants.

Certainly Antoinette Dupres was beautiful, but it was such a beauty as one sees in wax dolls blank, soulless, expressionless, if I may except the predominating expression of self-satisfaction. Beulah's quiet dignity failed to repel the continued stare fixed upon her, and, gathering up the folds of her shawl, she rose. "Don't go," said Cornelia earnestly.

Suddenly everyone round me exclaimed, "Look! look! he is developing himself!" And in reality he was like an elastic body which, in developing itself, would get larger. I made Patu very happy by telling him that Dupres was truly very graceful in all his movements.

She knowed there WAS somebody else, but for the life of her she couldn't" Rachel did not quite dare to tell so gross a falsehood, and so at this point she concluded to THINK, and added suddenly, "Oh, yes, I remember now. 'Twas that tall, long-haired, scented- up, big-feelin' man they call Squire Herrin'ton's VALLY." "Victor Dupres been here!" and Grace's face lighted perceptibly.

You may tell him that I will post a force of equal strength to the south. He will not fire until my French troops open on the enemy." Hal returned and reported to Captain O'Neill. It was plain that the American officer didn't understand the situation fully. However, he simply shrugged his shoulders. "General Dupres is in command," he said. "I guess he knows what he's doing or he wouldn't be here."

Patu said, almost reverently, "It is the inimitable Dupres." I had heard of him before, and became attentive.

At the close of the seventeenth century it was enlarged by a hermit, John Baptist Dupres, and his comrade John Licht. They worked at it for twenty years. Dupres dug a number of cells out of the sandstone, a kitchen with a chimney, a dining-room, a church, and a stable. The church measures 63 feet long, 30 feet wide, and is 22 feet high.

The day was cold, but the top was thrown back, and on one of the cushions sat, or, rather, reclined, a richly dressed and very beautiful girl. As Beulah leaned out to examine the lovely stranger more closely Cornelia appeared. The driver opened the low door, and, as Cornelia stepped in, the young lady, who was Miss Dupres, of course, ejaculated rather peevishly: "You stayed an age!"

He built a tower to his church, and gave his chimney the height of 90 feet so as to ensure that his fire should not smoke. The hermit Dupres was drowned in 1708 as he was rowing over the river a party of scholars who had come to visit him. No hermit lives there now. His residence is occupied by a peasant with his family.

Victor Dupres kept his own counsel with regard to Edith and the proprietor of Grassy Spring; and when questioned by his master, as he sometimes was, he always answered, "Monsieur St. Claire does nothing out of the way." So Richard, completely blinded, trusted them both, and had no suspicion of the scene enacted that afternoon in the Deering Woods.