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"A portrait of my cousin the Countess De Mirac," said he with a certain dryness of tone hard to interpret. Mr.
She had not long to wait. Almost with the closing of the street door upon the detectives and their prisoners, Mr. Blake followed by Mrs. Daniels and another lady whose thick veil and long cloak but illy concealed the patrician features and stately form of the Countess De Mirac, entered the room. The surprise had its effect; Luttra was evidently for the moment thrown off her guard. "Mrs.
Beckendorff asked him the magnitude of Mirac in Booetes; and the Prince confessing his utter ignorance of the subject, the Minister threw aside his unfinished planisphere and drew his chair to them at the table.
"Nobody; how could you think so mean of me when I promised, and " It is not necessary to go any further into this portion of the interview. The Countess De Mirac possessed to its fullest extent the present fine lady's taste for bric-a-brac. So much I had learned in my inquiries concerning her.
Its distance decreased about 1" between 1881 and 1891. It was still decreasing in 1899, when it had become 2.5". The orbital swing is also very apparent in the change of the position angle. The telescopic gem of Boötes, and one of "the flowers of the sky," is epsilon, also known as Mirac. When well seen, as we shall see it to-night, epsilon Boötis is superb.
It is also evidently intended, like the reversed arms of the soldiers, as a sign of mourning for the death of Christ. Turon. De mirac. S. Martini "oblatis super altare sacris muneribus, mysterioque Corporis et Sanguinis Christi palla ex more cooperto.", Vid. Bona. Lib.
However, it was whispered in my ear by one gentleman, a former political colleague of his who had been with him in Washington, that he was known at one time to show considerable attention to Miss Evelyn Blake, that cousin of his who has since made such a brilliant thing of it by marrying, and straightway losing by death, a wealthy old scapegrace of a French noble, the Count De Mirac.
But it died away and a deeper feeling seized me as I saw his glances return unkindled to her countenance, and heard him say in still more measured accents than before: "Is it possible then that the Countess De Mirac can desire the adulation of us poor American plebeians? I had not thought it, madame." Slowly her dark eyes turned towards him; she stood a statue.
Two of them he spent in the manner I have described; the third he went to the Windsor House where the Countess De Mirac had taken rooms going up to the ladies' entrance and actually ringing the bell, only to start back and walk up and down on the opposite side of the way, with his hands behind his back, and his head bent, evidently deliberating as to whether he should or should not carry out his original intention of entering.
"The announcement at this time of the engagement between Evelyn Blake and the Count De Mirac may have had something to do with this.
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