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If I am to leave grandpapa, I should like to tell him in the morning that it is all settled." Pierre went with alacrity, and was back in three minutes, when he found Euphrosyne shawled and veiled for the visit. The lady awaited her. "What can I do for you, my child?" said the abbess, kindly seating Euphrosyne beside her, in her parlour.
Now, at this protest of mine Euphrosyne saw fit to laugh the most hearty laugh she had given since I had known her. The mirthfulness of it undermined my wrath. I stood still opposite her, biting the end of my mustache. "You may laugh," said I, "but I'm not angry; and I shall pull this house down or dig it up in cold blood, in perfectly cold blood."
The father wounded his two sons by turns in their tenderest affections, and the sons avenged themselves by abandoning their father in the hour of danger. There was in Janina a woman named Euphrosyne, a niece of the archbishop, married to one of the richest Greek merchants, and noted for wit and beauty.
As Euphrosyne sat beside Monsieur Revel, who was sleeping on a couch, after the fatigues of the morning, old Pierre beckoned her softly out, sending in Euphrosyne's maid, and saying, as he shut the door, "She will stay with my master fill he wakes. Mademoiselle Afra has sent for you, mademoiselle, to see from the upper gallery what is going on.
"You are putting me on a court-martial, Madame Phoebus," said Lothair. "But we do not know on which side you were," said Euphrosyne. "That is matter of history," said Lothair, "and that, you know, is always doubtful." "Well, I do not like fighting," said Madame Phoebus, "and for my part I never could find out that it did an good." "And what do you like?" said Lothair.
"It would be strange, certainly," replied Euphrosyne, "to see the philosophical Monsieur Pascal hoeing canes, or working at the mill. Yet I believe we may be certain that he will be a slave as soon as Toussaint, or any negro in Saint Domingo." "Young people like to be positive," said Madame Oge to the abbess.
"I know that Rosamond, at this instant, is gasping with impatience to hear whether in the course of this ride I spoke of M. de Tourville and the shipwreck. I did but not of Euphrosyne: upon that subject I could not well touch.
The woman's eyes flashed fire. "Leave him also to me! I will handle him! A few rupees will serve as his bait. Stay! You say that this Swiss woman, Justine Delande, is sympathetic, and seems to be a worthy person?" She was scanning his impassive face with steely glances now. "She is younger than her sister Euphrosyne," gravely said Alan Hawke, "and not without some personal attractions.
"Dear, simple soul!" contentedly reflected Major Hawke, as he busied himself with the important letter to the staid Euphrosyne. "She has given me her heart, in her loving eagerness to defend that child, and the key to the whole situation. It would be just like this old brute to spirit the girl away to baffle Madame Berthe Louison. That is, if he dare not kill or intimidate her.
The Emperor himself, either seized with panic or finding that all was lost as, indeed, everything was lost so soon as the army had succeeded in obtaining a foothold within the walls fled from the city, He, too, escaped by the Golden Gate, taking with him Euphrosyne, the widow of Alexis. The brave Theodore Lascaris determined, however, to make one more attempt. His appeal to the people was useless.
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