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Emerson was moving toward the hall where the telephone was when his eye fell on Elisabeth sitting contentedly on the floor close to the wall turning over and over something that gleamed. "What have you got there, small blessing?" he asked, stooping to make sure that she was not intending to try the taste of whatever it might be. "Hullo!" he cried, straightening himself.
And there was nothing strained about it, which was a good thing, as Elisabeth was too light-hearted to stand any strain for long; the old comradeship still existed between them, giving breadth to a love which the new relationship had made so deep. And it was very wonderful to Christopher, also, to find himself in the sunshine at last after so many years of shadowland.
THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Next day, the Princess, when Turgi was removing the dinner, slipped into his hand a bit of paper on which she had pricked with a pin a request for a word from her brother's own hand. Turgi gave this paper to Clery, who conveyed it to the King the same evening; and he, being allowed writing materials while preparing his defence, wrote Madame Elisabeth a short note.
He was too proud and too superior to care for human affection, she supposed; and now he felt no hesitation in first forsaking her, and then reducing her to poverty, if only by so doing he could set himself still more firmly on the pedestal of his own virtue. So did Elisabeth's imagination traduce Christopher; and Elisabeth listened and believed.
But finally he had submitted contentedly to the inevitable, because in spite of all his hopes and ambitions his boyish love for Elisabeth held him fast; and now his manly love for Elisabeth held him faster still.
Want the Ethels to carry you?" Elisabeth made it known that she would like some such method of transportation, and sat joyfully on a "chair" which the two girls made by interclasping their wrists. Not for long did this please her ladyship. "Down, down," she demanded in a few minutes.
She was fond of billiards, and her elegance and courage in riding were remarkable. But she never allowed these amusements to interfere with her religious observances. At that time her wish to take the veil at St. Cyr was much talked of, but the King was too fond of his sister to endure the separation. There were also rumours of a marriage between Madame Elisabeth and the Emperor Joseph.
The crossing being narrow, and the bog shallow no more than a few inches above a hard bed of rock we had no trouble whatever. We now followed the same course as Wells had done, passing Lyell-Brown Bluff from which Mount Elisabeth bears 339 degrees and Parson's Bluff, eventually striking the Bonython Creek.
When the King, the Queen, and the children were suitably established at the Tuileries, as well as Madame Elisabeth and the Princesse de Lamballe, the Queen resumed her usual habits; she employed her mornings in superintending the education of Madame, who received all her lessons in her presence, and she herself began to work large pieces of tapestry.
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