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He made his round of the party, every one had something to give him; and I heard the merry voice of Billy as he patted his favourite's snub nose, "He's a pretty little fellow! now, an't he? I wonder what's become of the old blind rat that he used to lead about in the shed?" "Whiskerandos," said I, pensively, to my companion, "I could almost wish myself in Oddity's place!"

"I think," said Randal Courteney slowly, "that I shall never despise any one again." "Life is so difficult," said Rosemary, with the air of one who knew. They were strewing the Pier with roses for Rosa Mundi's night. There were garlands of roses, festoons of roses, bouquets of roses; roses overhead, roses under foot, everywhere roses. Summer had returned triumphant to deck the favourite's path.

When he appeared again at supper time, in order to help us eat our Christmas carps, he found little Hermy standing with Karl and Kurt before the fire, and he noticed how his favourite's eyes rested with pleasure on the nuts which he had bought for his grandmother; and how the older boys, who were only too prone to tease their younger brother, treated him with a certain tenderness, as if they had something to make up for.

I was bursting to tell him of my affair, and that he had another nephew, to whom if common justice were rendered, his fortune was as certainly made for life. "Guy's business happened this way," continued my uncle, who was quite engrossed by the thought of his favourite's success.

He did not know his young favourite's present state of mind concerning his desire for a monastic life, but he had probably become aware that his swiftly kindled, ardent love for yonder lovely child had led him into an act of culpable imprudence.

He crushes into a crowd that has gathered round the favourite's stall, and overhears one hard-faced racing man say to another, "What do you like?" to which the other answers, "Well, either this or Royal Scot. I think I'll put a bit on Royal Scot." This is enough for the Oracle.

Thou shalt to-night admit Mustapha Bey to the harem at the hour of nine o'clock!" "Saadat el basha!" The eunuch's face was sickly in its terrified wonder. "Even so. At nine." "But, saadat " "Bring him secretly, even to the door of the favourite's room; then, have him seized and carried to a safe place till I send for him."

No one was allowed to speak a word in extenuation of the favourite's offence. Burghley, who lifted up his voice somewhat feebly to appease her wrath, was bid, with a curse, to hold his peace. So he took to his bed-partly from prudence, partly from gout and thus sheltered himself for a season from the peltings of the storm. Walsingham, more manful, stood to his post, but could not gain a hearing.

He chuckled to see how reluctant they all were at first to concede their homage to his favourite, and how soon they fell under that favourite's influence all save one man, the Intendant of the duchy. Philip himself was quick to see that this man, Count Carignan Damour, apprehensive for his own selfish ends, was bitterly opposed to him.

The love of the frivolous amusements of society, for which the want of higher cultivation left room in her mind, was humoured by the gaieties of the Duchesse de Polignac's assemblies; while her nobler dispositions were encouraged by the privileges of the favourite's station.