Unhappy all
others who may love her! She may pity, but she will listen to no
voice but the one which rules her heart, to her life's end!
Both ladies were in mourning, yet dressed with elegant simplicity,
befitting their rank and position in society. The Chevalier Le
Gardeur de Tilly had fallen two years ago, fighting gallantly for
his King and country, leaving a childless widow to manage his vast
domain and succeed him as sole guardian of their orphan niece,
Amelie de Repentigny, and her brother Le Gardeur, left in infancy to
the care of their noble relatives, who in every respect treated them
as their own, and who indeed were the legal inheritors of the
Lordship of Tilly.
Only a year ago, Amelie had left the ancient Convent of the
Ursulines, perfected in all the graces and accomplishments taught
in the famous cloister founded by Mere Marie de l'Incarnation
for the education of the daughters of New France, generation after
generation of whom were trained, according to her precepts, in
graces of manner as well as in the learning of the age--the latter
might be forgotten; the former, never.
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