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Updated: June 15, 2025
The windows of the Parish Church were darkened with thick black curtains, the altar was heavily draped, the strains of the mournful Mass of the Dead swayed to the responses of a sorrowing people. In the midst, raised upon a lofty catafalque whose sable drapery was surrounded with a starry maze of candle-lights, lay the silent remains of Chamilly Haviland, who loved Canada.
It would hide her face, she said, and she did not see why that should be done. For an instant she stood poised so lightly that she seemed to sway like a vision, as the candle-lights quivered about her, with her hands clasped in front of her, and her eyes wandering about the room till they lighted upon Clayton with a look of love that seemed to make her conscious only of him.
Here a thoughtful citizen suggested that probably the wolves had been bridled of late in Paris, not by candle-lights, but owing to the English having been driven out of the kingdom of France. "For those English be very wolves themselves for fierceness and greediness. What marvel then that under their rule our neighbours of France should be wolf-eaten?"
Dane's wife laughed a trifle hysterically. Simec arose and stood leaning forward, his hands upon the table. "The situation which Colcord devised, as it happens, is not so impossible as you think. In fact, it may prove to be quite feasible " He paused, but no voice rose to break the silence. The candle-lights were flickering softly in an entering breath of wind.
Under the flickering candle-lights the company seemed to draw to-gether in a fellowship that was not the bond of gustatory cheer which Evelyn could so infallibly establish at her table but a communion of sympathetic feeling as of one drawing to another in the common thrall of subdued emotion.
The night was so quiet that the candle-lights burned as steadily as flames in a globe, yet the air was spiced with a cool fragrance, and through the honeysuckle leaves above me I saw, as I leaned back in my wicker chair, a glimmer of kindly stars. "Very comfortably out of the world, Amedee," I said. "It seems to me I have it all to myself."
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