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"Yes, your majesty," said a lady in waiting, "the hair-dresser is in the outer room." "Go and call him, De Campan. And now, ladies," said Marie Antionette to the princesses, "you shall see one of the demi-gods. Leonard is called in the world of fashion 'le dieu des coiffures." "Leonard!" exclaimed Madame de Noailles.
For Amory was in the midst of a reminiscent reference to the Chiswicks, in the Adirondacks, and to Antionette Frothingham in a launch. At last they all were aware that the chess-board was being closed and Mrs. Hastings had risen. "I suppose," she was saying, "that they have an idea here, the poor deluded creatures, that it is very late.
On seeing you arrive at the château, I said to myself: 'Here is one who will be a suitable wife for Philip; and if my refusal renders him unhappy, the love of Antionette will console him!" "You thought that!" exclaimed Mademoiselle de Mirandol, throwing her arms around her friend's neck. "And I have so cruelly misjudged you! Dolores, can you ever forgive me?"
Yes; she was ready to see her own misery consummated without a murmur; but to be thus forgotten in a few weeks seemed terrible. "If this is really so," she thought, "Philip is as unworthy of Antionette as he is of me. But it cannot be. She is mistaken." Was Antoinette deceiving herself?
Only sixteen years before, an Austrian arch-duchess, Marie Antionette, married to the ruler of France, had met her death upon the scaffold, hated and cursed by the French people, who had always blamed "the Austrian" for the evil days which had ended in the flames of revolution. Again, the father of the girl to whom Napoleon's fancy turned had been the bitter enemy of the new regime in France.
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