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"It was," answered Lord St. George; "and, by the by, he is a very sensible, pleasant person, and greatly improved since he left England last." George beside her, "what! did you know him before he went to ? You can probably tell me, then, who that is to say what family he is exactly of the Lindens of Devonshire, or or " "Why, really," said Lord St.
The Father of his Country had been dead only a little more than a quarter of a century, and General Lafayette was still alive; he had, indeed, passed through our town but a few years before, and had been publicly welcomed under our own elms and lindens. Even babies echoed the names of our two heroes in their prattle.
The abbe said, with scanty tears moistening his aged eyes, "Mademoiselle, I haven't even the little grove where I have walked for fifty years. My beloved lindens are all cut down! At the moment of my death the Republic appears to me more than ever under the form of a horrible destruction of the Home." "You must pardon your niece," said the Chevalier de Valois.
At the nether end of this place Folk- might saw a grey stone house, and he went towards it betwixt the lindens, for it seemed right great, and presently was but a score of paces from its door, and as yet there was no man, carle or queen, stirring about it.
Through the parti-colored windows, crossed with broad bands of red, the branches of the lindens swayed in the wind, and the fluttering tendrils of the ivy cast strange, flickering shadows of blue, violet, and almost sinister scarlet upon the guests seated in the nave. Outside, in the square in front of the church, the crowd waited the end of the ceremony.
Valentin had seen the Hiltners' two men-servants with the litters under the lindens, and Barbara thought that perhaps the maids might have gone to the scene of the festival to carry headkerchiefs and cloaks to the ladies before the outbreak of the storm. That the deaf old grandmother did not hear her was easily understood. The Hiltners could not have returned, so she must wait.
Above the mass of heads, the leaves of the old lindens rustled with a murmur which recalled that of the sea; and now and then a blossom of a yellowish white would flutter down, which the girls disputed, holding up their hands and saying: "The one who catches it will have a husband before the year is out!"
The minutes dragged on at a snail's pace while the lanterns on the lindens and poles, the torches, and pitch pans were lighted. Had not the gentlemen and ladies been so completely separated, it might perhaps have been a little gay.
But little as Barbara said about this event, her mind was often occupied with it. In the first place, it recalled to her memory the dance under the lindens at Prebrunn. Did it not seem as if her ardent royal partner of those days had become her avenger?
The whole house, outside and in, is modest in the extreme. The park with its avenues of lindens, which were in full bloom during our visit, the ponds and lawns and forest, must have been superb in the time of his grandfather, and even of his mother, from whom he inherited it. A grove and thicket now occupy the site of the former manor, and screen the view of each wing from the other.
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