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"Again ia tears, Louise why will you
entertain these sorrowful forebodings?-
Believe me, it is the solitude of the life
you lead that lends this sadness to your
thoughts. Trust that few short months
will see me again in thine arms, dearest
II DO not doubt it will be so. must
leave you now, or my guests will grow
impatient at my delay. have surprise
in store for them they wot not Of. But
you, young sir" he continued, holding out
his arms to the infant, who crowed and
leaped gladly into them, ssyou must away,
away with me! Twill secure to thee some
acquaintances before / go to pay my de-
voir5 TO the infdel who lords it at the Holy
tomb"


" Robert! what mean you?"-she was
too late. They had disappeared; but
guided BY the echo Of his heavy tread, she
stole after them in the direction of the
banquet-hall. The loud shout which hailed
their entrance bursting along the corri-
dors, quickened her steps. She gained
the door and listened again shout, louder
than before, proclaimed that tender infant
the acknowledged successor to the duke
dom. Holding as mere trifes the sacred
ties Of marriage, and careless as their
northern forefathers Of the distinction be-
tween wedlock and concubinage, with ac-
clamations they swore the oath Of fealsy
to the offspring Of unweded love. Louise
listened, every limb trembling with Joy,
then sought her chamber, to indulge in a
flood Of tears, Of mingled sorrow and glad
ness.


Years rolled rapidiy on, pregnant with
important events. A monument at Nice
told Of noble piIgrim-the fourth lineal
descendant from Rollo-who died on his
return from Palestine. The valley flow
ers blonmed and faded on the sod beneath
which lay the mouldering frame OF one
whose beauty was the theme Of many a
song, whose modest goodness was the bur
then Of many a freside- tale for leagues
around the castle. But that infant, the
son of the humble maid of Falaise, became
William, duke of Normandy, and after
wards conquerer Of England.