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Rh "Give me scarlet and green," said the Chevalier De Joinville; "they are magnificently barbaric. The one so warlike; the other so sacred to all true believers. Why, I should feel like the Sublime Porte himself."

"Give me," replied Evelyn, "blue—

and amber—

I appeal to Madame de Mercœur—"

"Who gives it in your favour, were it but for the gallantry which brings but feminine instances to support its taste. Out on the Chevalier's barbarous references."

"Theory and practice do not always accord," observed De Joinville, as he watched Evelyn take a seat beside Francesca.

"I am impatient," exclaimed she, "to tell you about your note;" and she proceeded to detail her anxieties and safe accomplishment of her undertaking. "I was very near stopping you this morning: but tell me," and her voice took an unusual tone of interest, "what had just affected you so seriously?"