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"And yet I wished profoundly that we might meet, Monsieur more so, apparently, I regret to say, than you have. I have seen friends of ours in Paris since you have had that pleasure, Monsieur," says St. Aulaire, throwing himself across a chair and resting his folded arms on the back. "Indeed." "You are cold-blooded, Monsieur 'tis a grave fault.
"I am no skating-master, Monsieur," returned the young man, quietly, and with as good grace as he was master of, "but I shall be happy to have a turn upon the ice with you," and with that he moved off, leaving St. Aulaire to stay or follow as he chose. He chose to follow and skated rapidly after Calvert with no very benevolent look on his handsome, dissipated face.
When the three gentlemen entered the drawing-room a numerous company was already assembled, the older members of which were busy with quinze and lansquenet in a card-room that opened out of the salon, the younger ones standing or sitting about in groups and listening to a song which Monsieur de St. Aulaire, who was at the harpsichord, had just begun.
"And, by God! you shall have it," cried St. Aulaire, half beside himself. His face was quite white now except for the red mark across it, which Calvert's blow had furrowed, and his eyes were wild and staring.
"A duty I owe myself as well as to my country," says St. Aulaire, so much mocking meaning in his voice and glance that his three listeners fell to laughing. "There is a lady to whom I owe a small debt of ingratitude, and I like best to settle the case in this fashion." So that was his method of punishment! To strike Adrienne through her brother to spare her and take away all that she loved!
Aulaire, as he wheeled beside Calvert, who had succeeded in checking his impetus. He was smiling, but there was a dark look in his eyes. "Well done, but 'twas too easy a very school-boy's trick! We must try something a little more difficult to test our agility upon the ice unless, indeed, Monsieur has had enough?" and he looked at Calvert insultingly full in the face.
Aulaire, courteously, but with a disagreeable smile playing about his mouth. "In the meantime, if Monsieur will but resign you for a time " He stopped and shrugged his shoulders slightly. Calvert moved from his place beside Madame de St. André. As he made his way toward the shore, intending to remove his skates and find Mr. Jefferson and Mr.
The company broke up soon after the accident to Monsieur de St. Aulaire, and in a few minutes Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Morris, and Calvert were in their carriage on the way to the Legation, where Mr. Morris was engaged to dine that evening. "I thought you had told me that Mr. Calvert was quite indifferent to the fair sex," says Mr. Morris, laughing, and speaking to Mr.
Aulaire, pressing affairs had detained him in London three days before he could set out for Paris. He knew not whether that worthy had arrived there before him or not whether he intended to return to Paris at all or to work through some secret agency. A thousand vague plans for discovering these things floated through his mind and were rejected one after the other.
He took with him to Calvert the news of the sudden death of the old Duchesse d'Azay she had failed rapidly since hearing of the death of d'Azay, and had passed away painlessly on the morning of Lafayette's arrival in Paris the escape of St. Aulaire to Canada, and a letter from Mr. Morris. "He desired me to give you this," said Lafayette, gravely, handing the letter to Calvert.
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