uges the young captain chanced to see one morning at mass the
fair _Margaret, Countess of Anhalt_. She had lately fled to the town to
frustrate the intentions of _Louis_, who would have given her hand to an
equally unwilling suitor. There was also, hanging about, a certain _De
Brissac_, who in the event of the countess's death or imprisonment would
succeed to her estates. So off we go, cut and thrust, sword, cloak and
rapier, all to the right jingle of tushery, till the last chapter, in
which _King Louis_ relents and does what kings (of France especially)
always do in the last chapters of historical romances. Really it seems
sometimes as though the Louvre under the Monarchy must have been run as
a kind of superior matrimonial agency in a large way of business. Anyhow
he rings down the curtain upon a bustling tale that should add to the
reputation of its author.

* * * * *

The Conqueror of Ouimet.

As the grief of a lioness reft of her cubs,
Or a general ragged by the rawest of subs,
Or a rigid supporter of temperance clubs
Accused of frequenting the lowest of pubs,
Or a burglar defied by the skill that is Chubb's,
Is America's grief at the triumph of Tubbs.

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