The thought that he had been outwitted by the beautiful,
designing, heartless girl, the reflection that he dare not turn to
the right hand nor to the left to inquire into this horrid
assassination, which, if discovered, would be laid wholly to his own
charge, drove him to the verge of distraction.
The Governor and his friend Peter Kalm occupied the royal banc.
Lutheran as he was, Peter Kalm was too philosophical and perhaps too
faithful a follower of Christ to consider religion as a matter of
mere opinion or of form rather than of humble dependence upon God,
the Father of all, with faith in Christ and the conscientious
striving to love God and his neighbor.
A short distance from Angelique, two ladies in long black robes, and
evidently of rank, were kneeling with downcast faces, and hands
clasped over their bosoms, in a devout attitude of prayer and
supplication.
Angelique's keen eye, which nothing escaped, needed not a second
glance to recognize the unmistakable grace of Amelie de Repentigny
and the nobility of the Lady de Tilly.
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