THE FEENCHJklANS STOEY. This
the Hussars.
officer
235
had received two
balls
m
the
battle of Toulouse, one in the shoulder and the other in
the knee, and was for a long time detained in the town by
The doctor who attended him was
wounds.
his
who attended
doctor
my
the family of
and the Hussar received a
tiful,
beyond the power
informant, and hence
The Frenchman's
an acquaintance arose.
doctors
of
thii-d
sister
was beau-
wound, which was
Whenever
cure.
to
also the
his
departm-e to England was mentioned he always said, " I shall
come back
At
for Zoe."
him
able to travel,
"I
shall
on,
and months
and he took
come back
for
last the doctor
gi"ew into
His
leave.
Zoe."
last
pronounced words were,
Days and months went and the
years,
suitors
hope
light of
Many
faded in the French maiden's beautiful hazel eyes.
had come for her hand and had gone away
dis-
appointed, and the foi cV Anglais seemed to be a broken link
whom
to all but her to
it
rejected suitors retm'ned,
was plighted.
It
was a bright
her,
da}^
all
into the room.
at length so
in
Jmie when he came
truth, she
Zoe was seated
far, far
it.
The
at a table, with a
away.
The ;
book
pages — she
electric
but Zoe made no reply
shock seemed to
She started up, her eyes
bright colom* rushing to her temples. recoiled in alann, thinking that
was
rejected suitor entered,
heard him not, for her thoughts were
Suddenly an
her frame.
for
lips.
open, and a sweet smell of flowers floated
and pleaded well and passionately
away.
She yielded
but her eyes saw not the
thinking of one
—m
one of the
promise to give him her answer from her own
windows were
before
last
and Zoe's family pressed her to
bestow on him a gracious answer. far as to
At
jjass
flashing,
far
through
and the
The Frenchman
madness had seized her