you will say the end is wicked and the means dishonorable. But find
out I will--and speedily! It will only be the price of another
dance with the Chevalier de Pean, to discover all I want. What
fools men are when they believe we love them for their sakes and
not for our own!"

Amelie, pitying the wild humors, as she regarded them, of her old
school companion, took her arm to walk to and fro in the bastion,
but was not sorry to see her aunt and the Bishop and Father de Berey
approaching.

"Quick," said she to Angelique, "smooth your hair, and compose your
looks. Here comes my aunt and the Bishop--Father de Berey too!"

Angelique prepared at once to meet them, and with her wonderful
power of adaptation transformed herself in a moment into a merry
creature, all light and gaiety. She saluted the Lady de Tilly and
the reverend Bishop in the frankest manner, and at once accepted an
interchange of wit and laughter with Father de Berey.

"She could not remain long, however, in the Church's company," she
said, "she had her morning calls to finish." She kissed the cheek
of Amelie and the hand of the Lady de Tilly, and with a coquettish
courtesy to the gentlemen, leaped nimbly into her caleche, whirled
round her spirited horses like a practised charioteer, and drove
with rapid pace down the crowded street of St. John, the observed of
all observers, the admiration of the men and the envy of the women
as she flashed by.

Amelie and the Lady de Tilly, having seen a plenteous meal