An Enemy to the King; From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur De La Tournoire
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Sometimes when I talked in the strain of love, joy and pain would succeed each other on her face, sometimes they would seem to be present at the same moment. From the look of complete abandon- ment to happiness that sometimes, though never for long, shone on her features, I felt that she loved me, and that eventually her love would gain the victory. I continually tried to elicit an expression of her feel- ings in words. Sweet to me as was the frequent 308 AN ENEMY TO THE KING. confession of her... looks, I sought a confession in speech also. One afternoon, as we stood on a little spur that rose from the declivity below the chateau, and whence through a small opening between trees could be seen the river, the smiling plain, and afar the high-perched chateau of Clochonne, I asked her : " Why is it that when I speak of what most occu- pies my heart you become silent or sorrowful, or go suddenly from me ? " With assumed lightness she replied : " Can a woman explain her capricious doings any more than a man can understand them ?
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