Welcome," he said, "brave comrade! Thou who foughtest so gallantly by my side, and whose loss I have long deplored."

"Welcome, indeed!" echoed Du Plessis; and the interchange of kind words was for some time cordial and uninterrupted.

Gui at length found a hearing for the relation of his escape from Dreux, which he made with his accustomed openness and clearness, and to which his audience listened with the profoundest interest.

They could not, however, forbear from some gentle reproaches for his long silence, which Gui explained in as satisfactory a manner as possible. The

conversation then turned on the condition of public affairs, and the hopes of the young man sank at the statement which the Admiral made of the position of the Protestant party. He could not, however, refrain from divulging his scheme with regard to his patrimony of St. Flore, and patiently awaited the reply. The Admiral shook his head doubtfully.

"You must relinquish that hope," he said; "for the present unfriendly aspect of the Court plainly indicates how little an application such

sign such a possession You know her disposition -ask yourself is it probable?"

Gui was silent, and his heart died within him; but he was too manly to despond, and, with a great effort, gave his mind to the subject of the conversation which again turned on the approaching outbreak. The Admiral now freely communicated his project, and told him of his anxiety to commit the charge of these important concerns to some faithful, trusty person.

"You," he said, "Du Plessis and Colonel Mouvans, are already acquainted with your part. You, De Viole, have still a station to be assigned, and on you I rely to remain in my vicinity, and to await direct orders Do you agree to this?"

A cloud passed over the young brow, but he strove youth, was reported in glowing terms to the Queen. manfully against the weakness, and declared himself The Court was now at Monceaux, whither Catherine ready for any undertaking. Mouvans and Du summoned her astrologer, Acevedo, who was leading Plessis remained wih Coligny until long after mid- a life of monastic seclusion in the Louvre. night, and when they departed Gui still continued in the castle to await his commands. It was bitter work to resign his schemes and hopes for the future; and not until he had lifted up his heart to his Heavenly Father, and implored His protection for his beloved Gabrielle, did peace-that blessed answer to true prayer-soothe his distracted breast.

stant news of their proceedings from Auxerre, where
the latter was stationed. It was at this time that
Catherine heard for the first time for many years
the hateful name of De Viole-a name which awoke
in her cruel heart the bitterest remembrances, and
aroused the passions of hatred which had long lain
dormant there. Gui de Viole, moreover, was de-
scribed as the confidant and favorite of Coligny, as
the chosen messenger for the important despatches
between the two leaders of the Huguenot party, as
well as to Joanna of Navarre, by whom the youth
had been most especially and particularly distin-
guished.

It was with great unwillingness that he obeyed the command; but since the news of Gui's discovery, which Du Plessis had not failed to convey to him, he saw how needful it was to maintain his ground, and to preserve his secret yet more closely.

It was one consolation to know that re-union, although deferred, was not hopeless, and his thankful spirit rose again in earnest zeal for that cause for which he had verilled his life, and lived as a fugitive

even in his own land.

Gabrielle was not blind to the change in her adopted father's manner, and asked him repeatedly the cause of his increased cheerfulness-a thing, indeed, so strange with him, that she could but wonder and rejoice; and when he communicated to the loving girl the tidings he had received of Gui's safety, and the hope that he might once more press his beloved son to his heart, she shared in his joy more deeply than he himself conceived; but it did not escape his notice that at the name of Gui her fair face was suffused with blushes, and her eyes shone with unwonted brightness. He then tried to discover if Gui's true posi

tion were known to her. He mentioned the name of Rabaud as by chance, and he marked that she bent her head to conceal her emotion; and when she had resumed her composure, she asked with a trembling voice after the old Rabaud who had healed her father's wound.

Viole, who now knew sufficient, simply replied that the man still lived in Dauphiny, and hastily changed the subject. A sigh escaped the maiden's breast, but she was silent.

(To be continued.)

The character which he bore, in short, was that of WILL, WIT, AND JUDGMENT.-At twenty years of the most zealous of the defenders of his faith; and age the will reigns-at thirty, the wit--and at forty, the account of his prowess at Dreux, while but a the judgment.

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belonged was on duty at Fort de Blaze, where the Among the exploits in which he distinguished Duchess de Berri was imprisoned, that he obtained himself, the most important were the expedition he the favorable notice of Marshal Bugeaud, Comman-directed, in 1842, against the unsubdued tribe of

NONE-SUCH.-A PORTRAIT. evidently considered more than a compensation for by her pointed reproof, "then I've nothing to say. crumpling and soiling together. His hair was I only thought I'd walk over and call on you, and black, and carefully curled in little ringlets, which look round and see your place a little. I've got so he was at untiring pains to adjust to a suitable and effective fall about his neck, and over his ears, and arranged with what he could not help believing to be a killing sort of grace over his high and narrow temples. On the tip-top of his pear-shaped head they were twisted and tangled, wriggled in and corkscrewed out, till nothing seemed to be there but a living and thriving bed of little ringlets. And he seemed so well satisfied with himself, too, that even the famous Beau Brummell would in his eyes have been anything almost, rather than an object of envy.

carpenters delivered up the key, and carried away But I've heerd a good many of 'em say, first an'
their tools. His name-if that is of the least ad- last, that they'd like to know you all. They think
ditional interest or importance-was Dandelly. you're ruther distant, I guess. Ha! ha! ha! But
Being warm summer weather, he was clad, as he I s'pose you don't care what they do think; I
was wont to clothe himself at that season, in a suit should'nt, if I was in your place, I'm sure!"
of pure white. Pantaloons and coat were white, Mary assured him that they said nothing about
and so was his vest. About his thick and gross such things, and wished to say nothing. She ad-
neck he had folded a white cravat-not exactly im-dressed the new visitor quite curtly.

I've seen and done there, when I come back again?"
He stared at them vacantly, as if they had suddenly
risen in his estimation by a jumping bound of at
least a hundred feet. Hope I shall have a good
time there, 't any rate. Wish some of you was
goin', or all of you. Sh'd like to meet you there,
we should have such a nice time of it. Not quite
so lovely there as 'tis here, I guess, ha! ha! What
do you think of this little town now, ladies? Got
use't to it yet? You're pleasantly situated here, I
declare. And your garden is fine. How beautiful
them flowers smell now, out 'n them beds yonder.
What do you pretend to call 'em? Got a man to
tend your garden, or do you do it yourselves? Gar-
den work's called very healthy work for ladies, and
Mary betrayed symptoms of increasing impa-
I s'pose 'tis; but I don't think its any too clean for tience. She found she had met with one indi-
their fine soft hands, ha! ha!" and he carelessly | vidual, whom neither satire nor menace itself could
spread out and glanced at the backs of his own,
which, by-the-bye, hardly held their own by compa-
rison with the whiteness of his linen coat. Mr.
Perkins keeps a fine garden, and so do the Laws.
They have gard'ners, though, I believe. Everything
looks nice and true,-so purty."

fun, and all that, to be had in the woods, a runnin' without a suspicious and naughty reservation, were round anywhere you want to. Ever attend many wondrously settled and centered in him. He could picnics, ladies? Grand good things, aint they, paint, and he could hang paper as well. A more though! Always have 'em over to Millbrook, 'most skillful hand with a fine cambric needle, with laces, every Fourth o' July. Never enjoyed myself so ribbons, and the like of these things, was not to be dismuch in all my life, as I did the last Fourth. covered but with great difficulty, and after traversing Everybody was there, and there was most every- a large extent of domestic territory. And he seemed thing to eat, too. I helped set the tables. Helped? to be all the time traveling. How he managed to I had charge of about the whole of 't. Everybody do it, the wisest of people didn't know. Who deadmired 'em, too. And I arranged all the flowers frayed his expenses, was a problem more difficult of jest as tastefully as I could, tulips, and daffies, and solution than were even the brain-perplexing hyeroroses, and geraniums, and hyacinths, and oh! such glyphics on the case of an Egyptian mummy. great white lillies. I wish you could have been over Gliddon himself never could have deciphered it. there; you'd have enjoyed it so much. There was no one whom he did not know, and hardly a spot that he said he had not seen. He was most happy to converse upon subjects of every nature, and no less ready and fluent on abstruse than on drive from his position. A person more perfectly everyday topics. You could not catch him in the at his ease, and more thoroughly indifferent to sati-trap of a surprise; not that he was "too smart" for rical speeches, the whole country round could not everybody, by any means, but because he would not have furnished. Addicted to feminine talk and fem- be surprised. He had no conception of what such inine pursuits, he was ambitious to become distin- a feeling, with the attendant feeling of modesty, guished in no other. Nothing suited him better really was. than to take a half-hour or so, for describing the press of a particular young lady at a particular ball, soiree, or party. In the enumeration of the long "What kind o' work is that?" he broke out, inde-list of ladies' equipments, embracing those from the fatigable as ever, and reaching out his head to get a top of the head to the very tip of the foot, he enerbetter view. 'Oh, its knotting, is it? Very beauti-getically put forth all his mental powers, and re-regarded the persons, the language, and the whole

Martha hereupon commenced a low conversation with Ellen about some knotting she was engaged

upon.

ful work, so soft and delicate for a lady's fingers. Nothing any purtier 'n knotting. I've got a friend that does a good deal of 't; Miss Burr, a very particular friend she is, and a very fine young lady, too. Wish you did but know her, you'd surely be pleased with the acquaintance. What is that figger you're workin' at there? P'raps I might give you some help about it. I know somethin' about such things, more'n folks think for. I make ladies' caps too, sometimes. I can make a cap as handy as any woman; do it very of'n; always make Miss Perkins's, trimmin's an' all. She says she don't want no better hand. I guess I could astonish you with my skill at such things.

"And then, too, I make vases, and baskets out o' pine-burrs and melon seeds, and boxes o' pasteboard and mosses, and crosses, and pyramids o' shells out o' red putty and little sea-shells, you've seen 'em, I know, and lounges, and ottomans, and crickets, and I guess about everything else. There aint but a little, ladies, that I can't do, ha! ha!"

"You certainly must be a very useful person in some families,” suggested Mary, drily.

"Ah, but, Miss Rivers, that's what I am! There's very few about here 't can beat me very well. I'll take you into Miss Perkins's parlors, she's got two parlors, you see, and I'll show you things that I've made, and that I've fixed, till you'll hardly be willin' to believe me.

"I dare say," returned Mary.

He did not quite comprehend what she meant ; so he followed his usual habit when puzzled, and forthwith sent his fingers on another exploring excursion through his bed of ringlets, and twinkled his eyes at her vacantly.

Then he resumed his rattle :

"Wish the people round here were at all lively. Dullest folks I ever did see; jest the dullest. Why

velled in the thought that his familiarity with such
topics rendered his presence highly desirable in
every little social assembly that was gathered.

He was nothing but a sort of man-milliner. He
was a strange hybrid of a creature, like nothing at
all that had ever before been seen The greater
pains you were at to show your thorough disgust for
him, the more determined he seemed that you should
be altogether delighted with him. If you spoke
chastising words to him,-words that would drive
any ordinary dog from your presence, he at once
became sycophantically meek, and held himself
ready to lick your hand whenever you should extend
it.

How could such a creature be shaken off? Mary tried satire; and her satire was sometimes pretty sharp stuff, too. But nothing came of it. Instead of feeling in the least degree abashed or humiliated, he simply turned to bestow his attention on the other two, as if he would leave her out of his calculation entirely.

The

Whatever might be the uneasiness of the girls, under this unlooked-for infliction, he was not at all troubled. He had enjoyed nothing more for a long time. And still lounging in his chair, and still holding his white beaver carelessly in his hand, he appearance of the three female friends with a degree of coolness that was a full match for any effrontery either recorded or known. It was not until Mary finally left the room, and refused stubbornly to return, that he suggested he had staid longer than he really intended, and got up to go.

He assured them he should make another call

sometime before he left for the Springs, and repeated his wish that they might become acquainted with the many very fine friends to whom he should ever stand ready to introduce them.

Bidding them good afternoon, he hit his toe against the corner of the outer door, crushed his hat shockingly against the post, scattered his fallendown ringlets over his eyes, and passed out through the gate as carelessly as if that were the way he was in the habit of taking his leave, everywhere he went.

DO RATS REASON?-A few evenings since, as the rain was falling in torrents, deluging the little Martha happened to be rather better natured about yard by the house, a large rat was observed to come it. Perhaps she possessed a trifle more of tact in hurriedly out of a hole by the side of the house, getting along with such strangely disagreeable be- where the water was pouring in, and springing forings. She seemed patient with him, even when his ward to an opposite building, for a moment disapabundance of her native good humor-that blessed the hole, which was fast being filled with water, and presence must have been most offensive. peared. Back again came the rat, and plunged into gift to mortals-led her rather to enjoy than to dis- in a moment re-appeared, bearing in her mouth a sect and criticise. He offered her a large fund of young rat, which she carried to the opposite buildamusement. It was quite as good as a rare showing. Thus she continued to labor, until five of the for her. So she sat and laughed, sometimes reply-young had been rescued from a watery grave, and ing to the interrogatories of the strange gentleman, and sometimes breaking out with an odd and quizzical remark to Ellen, the eyes of both of them the while glistening with nothing in the world but fun

alive.

deposited in a place of safety; but on coming again from the wall with one of her young in her mouth, she dropped it down upon the ground, and after looking a moment, again took it up, and trying to wake it, laid it down again. The little one was Well, he dead. It had been drowned. After repeated efforts bring to life her offspring, she mournfully left the

Mr. Dandelly was, by profession really was a little of everything. The peculiar re-to can't somebody git up a picnic here, once in a great quisites to success in every known human calling, little one, and went to the new home she had prewhile, or somethin' o' that sort? There's so much if his own ingenuous statements were to be received pared for her more fortunate family.

MISCELLANY.

THE HOLY LAND.-The pools all round Jerusalem are beautiful; the cool arching rock roof of some, the weed-tufted sides and clear waters of all, are delicious. The pool of Siloam is still pretty-though less so, no doubt, than when the blind man, sent to wash there, opened his eyes on its sacred stream. The fountain of Siloam is more beautiful than the

pool. It lies deep in a cave, and must be reached

vice.

search. When the curd of milk is exposed to the
air in a moist state, for a few days at a moderate
temperature, it begins gradually to decay, to emit
a disagreeable odour, and to ferment. When in
this state, it possesses the property, in certain cir
cumstances, of inducing a species of chemical
change and fermentation in other moist substances
with which it is mixed, or is brought into contact.
It acts after the same manner as sour leaven does
when mixed, with sweet dough. Now, old and

ST. FLORE.

A NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE.

FROM THE GERMAN OF HORN.

(Continued.)

CHAPTER XII.-PLOTS OF THE QUEEN MOTHER AND
HER SON-A HUNTING ADVENTURE.

partially decayed cheese acts in a similar way when THE Huguenots saw their impending danger, for

Those are

forces.

Provided with the necessary documents, which were concealed on different parts of his person, Gui quitted Chatillon, and, in company with his servant, commenced a journey of which he could not but auger ill, believing it to be attended not only with personal risk, but that the plot, if carried into execution, would tend yet further to inflame the anger and prejudice of the opposite party.

The beautiful situation of the Castle of Monceaux, no less than the riches of its forests in game, ren

the ranks of the royal army daily swelled both by broad steps which wind down in the shadow. introduced into the stomach. It causes chemical at Valery and Chatillon. Several councils had alA woman sat to-day in the dim light of reflected changes gradually to commence among the particles ready been held, wherein it was concluded to assume sunshine-washing linen in the pool. Here it was, of the food which has previously been eaten, and a posture of defence. During one held at Chatillon, that in the days of old the priest came down with thus facilitates the dissolution which necessarily a plan was resolved upon for the capture of the young his golden pitcher, to draw water for the temple ser- precedes digestion. It is only some kinds of cheese, king, who was at that time in the Castle of MonWe were now in the valley of Jehosaphat; however, which will effect this purpose. ceaux, a place ill calculated for defence, in which he and we crossed the bottom of it, where the brook generally considered the best in which some kind of was pursuing his favorite diversion of the chase. Kedron must run when it runs at all; but it seems cheese mould has established itself. Hence the For this undertaking preparations were now secretly to be now merely a winter torrent, and never to mere eating of a morsel of cheese after dinner does carried on. Gui de Viole was despatched to Plessis have been a constant stream. When we had as-not necessarily promote digestion. If too new, or Mornay, who resided in Picardy, and on whom cended the opposite side of the valley, we were on of improper quality, it will only add to the quantity the Huguenots relied for an accession to their the Mount of Olives. The ascent was steep,-now of food with which the stomach is already overamong tombs, and now past fields of waving barley, loaded, and will have to await its turn for digestion flecked with the shade of olive trees. As we by the ordinary process.-Chemistry of Common ascended, the opposite hill seemed to rise, and the Life. city to spread. Two horsemen in the valley below, THE PARIS EXHIBITION.-The edifice in the and a woman with a burden on her head, mounting Champs Elysees preparing for the Exposition of to the city by a path up Moriah, looked so surpris- next year is now in a state that some opinion may ingly small as to prove the grandeur of the scenery. be formed of its effects, proportions, and distribuHereabouts it was, as it is said, and may reasonably tion. The leading idea appears to be a vast, oblong be believed, that Jesus mourned over Jerusalem, and central hall-since though the side galleries and told his followers what would become of the noble double aisles are wide, and the former are abundant city which here rose upon their view, crowning the in the amount of space which they provide, by the dered it a favorite resort of Charles IX., who, eager sacred mount, and shining clear against the cloud-nature of the composition they are so shut off from in the pursuit of everything which he undertook, less sky. Dwellers in our climate cannot conceive the central portion as in no point of view to be com- gave himself up with entire devotion to the pleaof such a sight as Jerusalem seen from the summit manded by the eye in conjunction with it. This sures of a hunting life. To this life he sacrificed all of the Mount of Olives. The Moab mountains, over separation is on the lower story further aided by the other interests, and was as thoroughly absorbed in it towards the Dead Sea, are dressed in the softest heaviness of the iron-work, which, unless it be as if it had been the great object of his being to hues of purple, lilac, and gray. The hill country to decorated with remarkable skill, bids fair to produce excel in woodcraft. Catherine, so far from disthe north is almost gaudy with its contrasts of color: the effect of a wilderness of columns and cross-couraging this taste in her royal son, rejoiced in its white or gray stones, red soil; and crops of vivid beams in deep shadow-so intricate as to destroy any pursuit which, by diverting his mind from the green, But the city is the glory-aloft on the steep all intimation of the area betwixt them and the affairs of government, would leave more power in its long lines of wall clearly defining it to the outer wall. Then, the distribution of light and her own hands. sight, and every minaret and cupola, and almost shade-or, to speak more exactly, of glare and every stone marked out by the brilliant sunshine gloom-may offer difficulties of detail which it will against the deep blue sky. In the spaces unbuilt require as much ingenuity as foresight to cope on within the walls are tufts of verdure; and cy-with. In the central hall-although it is to be presses spring here and there from some convent garden. The green lawns of the Mosque of Omar, are spread out small before the eye, with their groups of tiny gay moving people. If it is now so glorious a place to the eye, what must it have been in the days of its pride! Yet in that day, when every one looked for the exulting blessing "Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces!" there

came instead the lamentation over the Jerusalem that killed the prophets and stoned the messengers of Jehovah, and whose house must be therefore left desolate.-Miss Martineau.

glazed with ground glass-the affluence of daylight
and sunshine may become dazzling. In the side
aisles, on the ground floor, light is so sparingly
admitted that subdivision will be almost impossible
in anything higher than dwarf partitions. To eyes
accustomed to the Crystal Palaces at Knightsbridge
and Sydenham, the central hall of the Parisian
building will seem deficient in height, while the
curves of the iron work, in the roof, when viewed
in certain positions, have an appearance which is
more singular than satisfactory to the unscientific
eye. The outer elevation of the building, which is
solid stone-work, offers less matter for doubt and
question. It is simple and handsome.

CHEESE AFTER DINNER.-As a digester, as some not inappropriately call it, cheese-that which is decayed and mouldy being preferred by connoisseurs IMPEDIMENTS TO MATRIMONY.-There are some —is often eaten after dinner. The action which legal disabilities for marriage, such as the slight imexperience seems to have proved it to possess, in pediment of being married already. Another incaaiding the digestion of what has previously been pacity is want of reason; but if want of reason really caten, is both curious and interesting, and has had prevented a marriage from taking place, there would some light thrown upon it by recent chemical re-be an end to half the matches that are entered into.

The Court had already been some time at Monçeaux, and still the return to Paris was delayed, as Charles, from early morning till late at night, carried on his darling diversion, often accompanied by the ladies of the Court, who many of them excelled in the unfeminine sport. Margaret of Valois, the King's sister, especially delighted in hunting. Beautiful and gay, in the very spring-time of her existence, adorned with the richest gifts of natural grace, she found it some compensation for the monotony of her life at Monççaux to enter, with the young gallants of her brother's court, into this favorite amusement.

It was towards the close of September that Charles arranged a hunting party of extraordinary magnificence, which was, indeed, to comprise every member of the royal household. A lovely autumn day smiled on the festivity; and early in the morning the hunters assembled in the court-yard of the castle. The noonday meal was to be taken beneath a costly tent in the forest. The lords and ladies in their varied hunting attire formed a gay and animated spectacle, and the palfreys waited impatiently for the signal of departure, which was only delayed