BILLET'S SORROW.
At the time when the Queen and her consort were leaving Versailles,
never more to return under its roof, the following scene was taking
place in one of its inner yards, damp with the rain which a bitter fall
gale was beginning to dry up.
Over a dead body a man clad in black was bending: a man in the Royal
Lifeguards uniform knelt on the other side. Three paces off stood a
third person, with fixed eyes and closed hands.
The body was of a young man not more than twenty-three, all of whose
blood seemed to have poured out through ghastly wounds in the head and
chest. His furrowed and livid white breast appeared yet to heave with
the disdainful breath of hopeless defense. The head thrown back and the
mouth open in pain and anger, recalled the fine figure of speech of the
Ancient Romans:
And with a long-drawn wail the spirit fled to the abode of shades.
The man in black was Gilbert: the Lifeguards officer, Count Charny; the
bystander, Billet.
The corpse was Viscount Valence Charny's.
Gilbert regarded it with that fixed gaze which suspends the fleeing
soul in the dying and seems in the dead, able to recall the fled one.
"Cold and rigid; he is dead, and really dead," he said at last.
Charny uttered a hoarse groan and pressing the corpse in his arms,
emitted so heart-rending a sob that the physician shuddered and Billet
went off a little to hide his head in a corner of the quadrangle.
Suddenly the mourner raised the body, set it against the wall in a
sitting posture and slowly came away, but looking to see if it would
not revive and follow him.
Gilbert remained on one knee, resting his chin on his hand
thoughtfully, appalled and motionless.
Then Billet quitted the nook and came to him, saying, as he no longer
heard the wails of the count which had made his heart ache:
"Alas, Dr. Gilbert, this is really civil war, and what you foretold
is coming to pass. Only, the trouble comes sooner than I believed and
perhaps sooner then you calculated. I have seen villains slaughter
wicked men: I have trembled in all my limbs and felt a horror for
such monsters. But yet the men who were killed so far were worthless.
Now, as you predicted, they are killing honest folk. They have killed
Viscount Charny; I do not shudder but I grieve; I do not feel so much
horror for the murderers as fear for myself. The young gentleman has
been fouly done to death, for he was only a soldier and fought; he
ought not to have been butchered."
He uttered a sigh from his vitals.
"To think that I knew him when a child," he continued: "I can see him
now, riding along on his little grey pony, carrying bread round to the
poor on behalf of his mother. He was a fine pink and white-faced child,
with big blue eyes, who was always laughing.
"Well, it is queer! since I have seen him laying there, bleeding and
disfigured, it is no longer as a corpse that I think of him, but as the
pretty boy with the basket on his left arm and a purse in his right
hand. Really, Dr. Gilbert, I believe that I have had enough of this
kind of thing, and I do not care to see any more of it, for as all you
foretold is a-coming true, I shall be seeing you die, and then----"
"Be calm, Billet," said the physician, shaking his head gently, "my
hour has not struck."
"But mayhap mine has. Down yonder the harvest is rotting; the land is
laying unplowed; and my family languishes whom I love, and ten times
more fondly since I have seen this corpse for which his family will
weep."
"What are you driving at, Billet? Do you suppose that I am going to
pity your fate?"
"Oh, no," answered the farmer simply; "but as I must cry out when I am
in pain, and as crying out leads to nothing, I want to relieve myself
in my own way. In short, I want to go home on my farm, Master Gilbert."
"What, again?"
"Look ye, a voice down there is calling me home."
"That voice is prompting you to desertion, Billet."
"I am no soldier to desert, sir."
"What you want to do is worse than desertion in a soldier."
"I should like that explained, doctor."
"You come to Paris to overthrow an old house and you turn away before
the building is down."
"For fear it will tumble on my friends, yes, doctor."
"Rather, to save yourself."
"Why, there is no law against taking care of Number One," said Billet.
"A pretty calculation! as if the stones might not bound in falling and
rolling, and kill the runaway at a distance."
"Oh, you know I am not to be scared."
"Then you will remain, for I have need of you here, my dear Billet."
"My folks also have need of me at home."
"Billet, Billet, I thought you had agreed with me that a man has no
home when he loves his country."
"I should like to know if you would talk like that if your son
Sebastian lay there in that young gentleman's stead?"
He pointed to the corpse.
"Billet, a day will come when my son will see me laid out like that,"
was the stoical response.
"So much the worse for you, doctor, if he is as cold as you over it."
"I hope he will bear it better than me and be all the firmer from
having had my example."
"Then you want to inure the youth to seeing blood flow. At his tender
age, to be accustomed to fires, murders, gibbets, riots, night attacks;
to see queens insulted and kings badgered; and when he is cool like you
and steel like a sword-blade, do you expect he will love and respect
you?"
"No; I do not want him to see any such sights, which is why I have sent
him down to Villers Cotterets along with Ange Pitou though I almost
regret it at present."
"You say you are sorry for it to-day, why to-day?"
"Because he would have seen the fable of the Lion and the Mouse put in
action, which would be reality to him henceforth."
"What do you mean, Dr. Gilbert?"
"I say that he would have seen a brave and honest farmer come to town,
one who can neither read nor write; who never dreamed that his life
could have any influence, good or bad over the highest destinies: he
would have seen that this man, who was about to quit Paris, as he
wishes once more to do--contribute efficaciously towards saving the
King, the Queen and the two royal children."
"How is this, Dr. Gilbert?" asked Billet, staring.
"How sublimely innocent you are! I will tell you. Did you not awake at
the first noise in the night, guess that the tumult was a tempest about
to break on the royal residence and run to arouse General Lafayette,
for the general was sleeping."
"That was natural enough; he had been riding about for twelve hours; he
had not been abed for four-and-twenty."
"You led him to the palace," continued Gilbert; "you led him into the
thick of the scoundrels, crying: "Back, villains, the revenger is upon
ye!""
"That's right enough; I did that."
"Well, Billet, my friend, you see that you have great compensation;
though you could not prevent this young gentleman from being butchered,
you did perhaps stay the great crime of the slaughter of the royal
family. Ingrate, would you leave your country's service just when such
a mighty reward was yours?"
"But who would know anything about it when I never suspected it myself?"
"You and I, Billet; is not that enough?"
The farmer meditated for a while before he said as he held out his hand
to the physician:
"I guess you are right, doctor. But, you know, man is a weak, selfish,
unsteady creature; you are the only one who is just the other style.
What made you so?"
"Misfortune," replied the other, with a smile filled with more grief
than a sob.
"Lord, how singular--I thought misfortune soured a man."
"Weak men, yes."
"But if I were to meet misfortune and it was to make me wicked?"
"You may meet misfortune but you will never become wicked. I answer for
that."
"Then," sighed Billet, "I shall stay and see the game out. But I shall
show the white feather more than once, like this."
"But I shall be at hand to uphold you."
"So be it," said the farmer. Throwing a lazy look on Viscount Charny's
body, which servants came to remove, he said: "What a vastly pretty boy
he was, with his laughing eye, when he rode along on his little grey
with the basket and the purse--poor little master Charny!"
Poor Billet! he had not the mesmerist's prophetic soul, and he could
not dream what events we have to trace, now that the King and Queen
have started to Paris to follow the road marked by the Revolution's
redhot plowshare; now that Charny begins to see what a winsome and
noble wife he has; now that our minor characters are standing out; now
that poor Ange Pitou, quitting Paris with regret is going to play a
grand part in the drama of his own country--our romance is but well on
the way. We shall meet our dear old friends and alas! we shall fight
our stubborn old enemies in the pages of the continuation to this book,
under the title of "THE HERO OF THE PEOPLE."
THE END.
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=SIDNEY'S STUMP SPEAKER.=--Price, 15 cents.
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=SUNNYSIDE COLLECTION OF READINGS AND RECITATIONS, NO 1.=--Compiled
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=THE SUNNYSIDE COOK BOOK.=--12mo, 250 pages. Paper cover, 25 cents;
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=HOW TO GET MARRIED ALTHOUGH A WOMAN=; OR, THE ART OF PLEASING MEN. By
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=ADVICE TO WOMEN= ON THE CARE OF THE HEALTH, BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER
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=THREE THOUSAND THINGS WORTH KNOWING.=--By R. Moore, author of "Moore's
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=WEDDING RING (THE).=--This book contains a series of sermons delivered
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Women Who Fight the Battle of Life Alone; Worldly Marriages; Broken
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1 THE SECRET SORROW. By Mrs. May Agnes Fleming.
2 FUNNY STORIES. Funny enough to make a horse laugh.
3 WITTY SAYINGS SELECTED FROM ALL SOURCES.
4 WHICH SHALL IT BE? By Mrs. M. B. W. Parrish.
5 HOW TO ENTERTAIN A SOCIAL PARTY.
6 OGILVIE'S HANDY MONITOR OF USEFUL FACTS.
7 THE SUNNYSIDE COOK BOOK. By Mrs. Jennie Harlan.
8 SUNNYSIDE COLLECTION OF READINGS AND RECITATIONS.
9 THE FUNNY WORLD. 125 illustrations.
10 LOOKING BEHIND. By Frederick Alva Dean.
11 A FORCED MARRIAGE. By Frederick W. Pearson.
12 THE VICTIM OF HIS CLOTHES. By Fielding and Burton.
13 ONE HUNDRED POEMS. By Jane A. Van Allen, A.M.
14 A DARK PLOT. By Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
15 TWENTY-FIVE SERMONS ON THE HOLY LAND. By Talmage.
16 A MORAL INHERITANCE. By Lydia Hoyt Farmer.
17 MASTER AND MAN. By O. O. B. Strayer.
18 MARRIED FOR MONEY. By Mrs. May Agnes Fleming.
19 THE FUGITIVES OF PEARL HILL. By E. A. Young.
20 LIFE OF REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, D.D.
21 FUN ON DRAUGHT. A Comic Book. 10 cents.
22 A BASKET OF FUN. Cover Printed in 12 Colors.
23 FUNNY FELLOW'S GRAB BAG. Cover Printed in 12 Colors.
24 TWENTY GOOD STORIES. By Opie P. Read. 60 illustrations.
25 A DOUBLE LIFE. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
26 LOVE AND REBELLION. By Miss M. C. Keller.
27 "CY ROSS." By Mellen Cole.
28 HIS EVIL EYE. By Harry I. Hancock.
29 THE WIDDER DOODLE'S COURTSHIP. By Josiah Allen's Wife.
30 THE HANDY COOK BOOK. Price. 10 cents.
39 DON'T MARRY. By Hildreth.
40 A LITTLE NONSENSE.
41 JOSH BILLINGS' SPICE BOX.
42 THE WISEST MEN.
43 WIT AND WISDOM.
44 A TON OF JOKES.
45 SUNNYSIDE COLLECTION OF 300 SONGS. Words and Music.
46 EUREKA COLLECTION OF 300 SONGS. Words and Music.
47 "THE MAN." By Aspasia Hobbs. Price, 35 cents.
48 A WOMAN'S REVENGE. By Mrs. J. F. Reichhard.
49 A LOVELESS MARRIAGE. By Emma Howard Wight.
50 THE BAD BOY IN THE COUNTRY. By "Golden Rod."
51 HOW TO MANAGE A HUSBAND. By 150 Women.
52 THE OLD WITCH'S DREAM BOOK AND FORTUNE TELLER.
53 THE SCARLET LETTER. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
54 A TON OF FUN. Price, 10 cents.
55 CASANOVA THE COURIER. By David Skaats Foster.
56 INSPECTOR HENDERSON, THE CENTRAL OFFICE DETECTIVE.
57 A PRINCE OF GOOD FELLOWS.
58 PHANTOM DAYS. By Geo. T. Welch. Price, 50 cents.
59 DOWN IN THE WORLD. By Florence Warden.
60 OGILVIE'S 110 NEW RECITATIONS AND READINGS, No. 1.
61 " " " " " " No. 2.
62 " " " " " " No. 3.
63 " " " " " " No. 4.
64 " " " " " " No. 5.
65 " " " " " " No. 6.
66 " " " " " " No. 7.
67 PHILIP MEYER'S SCHEME. By Luke A. Hedd.
68 OLD SECRETS AND NEW DISCOVERIES.
69 FIFTEEN HUNDRED CONUNDRUMS. Price, 15 cents.
70 THE COMIC COOK BOOK. By Fred. H. Curtiss. Price, 10 cents.
71 MY OFFICIAL HUSBAND. By Mrs. J. F. Reichhard.
72 OUR FAVORITE DISHES. A Cook Book.
73 STORY OF A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR. By M. L.
74 HARRY SHARPE, THE NEW YORK DETECTIVE. By Harry Rockwood.
75 THE MAN FROM THE WEST. By a Wall Street Man.
76 TWO THOUSAND PRIZE JOKES.
77 THE RIVAL BEAUTIES. By Mrs. Evalena Praed.
78 THE REJECTED SYMBOL. By Rev. Chas. Edwards. Price, 10 cents.
79 MOODY'S NEW SERMONS. By D. L. Moody.
80 MOODY'S LATEST SERMONS. By D. L. Moody.
81 THE UMBRELLA MENDER. By Beatrice Harraden.
=THE SUNSET SERIES.=--We desire to call your special attention to the
following list of novels by the most popular authors in the world, many
of which are copyrighted and cannot be obtained in any other cheap
edition.
These books are printed from new plates and from large type, and
contain from 200 to 400 pages each. Price, 25 cents each.
We guarantee entire satisfaction in every respect. The following list
is now ready, and new books will be added from time to time.
1 HER LAST THROW. By "The Duchess."
2 MR. CLIFTON OF BARRINGTON. By Mrs. J. F. Reichhard.
3 THE EVERY-DAY COOK BOOK. Miss E. Neil.
4 THE CAPTIVE BRIDE. By Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
5 A MAD LOVE. By Charlotte M. Braeme.
6 PATIENCE PETTIGREW'S PERPLEXITIES. By Clara Augusta.
7 THE EARL'S WIFE. By George R. Sims.
8 THE HONORABLE MRS. VEREKER. By "The Duchess."
9 HER MAD LOVE. By Gerald Carlton.
10 MYSTERY NO. 13. By Helen B. Mathers.
11 DORA THORNE. By Charlotte M. Braeme.
12 THE WEDDING RING. By Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage.
13 A WOMAN'S REVENGE. By Mrs. J. F. Reichhard.
14 A LOVELESS MARRIAGE. By Emma H. Wight.
15 TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA. By Verne.
16 THE DREAM OF LOVE. By Emile Zola.
17 THE DOUBLE DUEL. By Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
18 INSPECTOR HENDERSON, THE CENTRAL OFFICE DETECTIVE.
19 HER ONLY SIN. By Charlotte M. Braeme.
20 MARRIED FOR MONEY. By Mrs. May Agnes Fleming.
21 THE REVERIES OF A BACHELOR. By Ik Marvel.
22 GASPARD DESMOND'S PASSION. By Pauline Grayson.
23 THE TWO ORPHANS. By R. D'Ennery.
24 A MODERN HEBE. By Miss M. E. Braddon.
25 IZMA; OR, SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. By M. Shields.
26 ON HER WEDDING MORN. By Charlotte Braeme.
27 A FALSE COUPLE. By Mrs. Jennie S. Holmes.
28 WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN. By Mrs. M. A. Holmes.
29 DEFENDING A HOME. By E. A. Young.
30 A GOLDEN HEART. By Charlotte M. Braeme.
31 ADVENTURES OF A BASHFUL BACHELOR. By Clara Augusta.
32 TWENTY GOOD STORIES. By Opie P. Read.
33 ROBINSON CRUSOE. By Daniel DeFoe.
34 A RED-HOT TRIP IN THE SUNNY SOUTH. By D. B. Shaw.
35 A DOUBLE LIFE. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
36 AULD LICHT IDYLLS. By J. M. Barrie.
37 HIS EVIL EYE. By Harry I. Hancock.
38 FIFTEEN HUNDRED CONUNDRUMS.
39 THE WIDDER DOODLE'S COURTSHIP. By Josiah Allen's Wife.
40 A MISSING HUSBAND. By Geo. R. Sims.
41 MY OFFICIAL HUSBAND. By Mrs. J. F. Reichhard.
42 THE MAN FROM THE WEST. By a Wall Street Man.
43 A PRETTY GOVERNESS. By Mrs. May Agnes Fleming.
44 HOW TO GET MARRIED ALTHOUGH A WOMAN;
OR, THE ART OF PLEASING MEN. By a Young Widow.
45 THE FATAL MARRIAGE. By Miss M. E. Braddon.
46 DETECTIVE JOHNSON OF NEW ORLEANS. By H. I. Hancock.
47 WHY I AM WHAT I AM. By Fourteen Clergymen.
48 A CLOVERDALE SKELETON. By Jennie S. Holmes.
49 THE MIDNIGHT ELOPEMENT. By Emma Sanders.
50 FUNNY STORIES. 150 Illustrations.
51 MASTER AND MAN. By O. O. B. Strayer.
52 THE LOST HEIRESS. By Florence Warden.
53 MAJOR JONES' COURTSHIP. By Major Jones.
54 MAJOR JONES' TRAVELS. By Major Jones.
55 MAJOR JONES' GEORGIA SCENES. By Major Jones.
56 WITTY SAYINGS SELECTED FROM ALL SOURCES.
57 A DARK PLOT. By Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
58 THREE MEN IN A BOAT. By Jerome K. Jerome.
59 HOW TO ENTERTAIN A SOCIAL PARTY.
60 A FORCED MARRIAGE. By Frederick W. Pearson.
61 HARRY BLOUNT, THE DETECTIVE. By T. J. Flanagan.
62 THE RECTOR'S SECRET. By J. R. Abarbanell.
63 TWO THOUSAND PRIZE JOKES.
64 ANNE. By Mrs. Henry Wood.
65 THE SUNSET RECITATIONS AND READINGS, No. 1.
66 " " " " " " 2.
67 " " " " " " 3.
68 BLACK BEAUTY. By Anna Sewall.
69 HARRY SHARPE, THE NEW YORK DETECTIVE. By Rockwood.
70 HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER. By John Strange Winter.
71 THE VICTIM OF HIS CLOTHES. By Fielding and Burton.
72 CAMILLE. By Alexander Dumas.
73 THE OLD WITCHES' DREAM BOOK AND FORTUNE TELLER.
74 DANESBURY HOUSE. By Mrs. Henry Wood.
75 FORGING THE FETTERS. By Mrs. Alexander.
76 BALSAMO, THE MAGICIAN. By Alex. Dumas.
77 THE MESMERIST'S VICTIM. By Alex. Dumas.
78 THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE. By Alex Dumas.
79 TAKING THE BASTILLE. By Alex. Dumas.
80 THE HERO OF THE PEOPLE. By Alex. Dumas.
81 THE ROYAL LIFE GUARD. By Alex. Dumas.
82 THE COUNTESS OF CHARNY. By Alex. Dumas.
83 THE KNIGHT OF REDCASTLE. By Alex. Dumas.
84 THE CAPTAIN OF THE RAJAH. By Howard Patterson.
85 DOWN IN THE WORLD. By Florence Warden.
86 THE BAD BOY IN THE COUNTRY. By "Golden Rod."
87 PRIVATE DETECTIVE NO. 39. By John W. Postgate.
88 THE YELLOW MASK. By Wilkie Collins.
89 NOT GUILTY. By the author of "The Original Mr. Jacobs."
90 THE FIRESIDE DICTIONARY AND CYCLOPEDIA--416 Pages.
91 LADY GRACE. By Mrs. Henry Wood.
92 THE SQUIRE'S DARLING. By the author of "Dora Thorne."
93 A CONFEDERATE SPY. By Capt. Thos. N. Conrad.
94 OGILVIE'S HANDY MONITOR OF USEFUL FACTS.
95 THE SHADOW OF A SIN. By the author of "Dora Thorne."
96 THE DUCHESS. By "The Duchess."
97 HOW TO MANAGE A HUSBAND. By 150 women.
98 A WICKED GIRL. By Mary Cecil Hay.
99 A STUDY IN SCARLET. By A. Conan Doyle.
100 LIFE IN A COUNTRY MANSE. By J. M. Barrie.
101 A FATAL WOOING. By Laura Jean Libby.
=THE PEERLESS SERIES.=--The following lists of paper covered books are
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1 PATIENCE PETTIGREW'S PERPLEXITIES. By Clara Augusta.
2 ADVENTURES OF A SKELETON. By B. W. Waltermire.
3 PEERLESS GEMS OF MELODY. 80 Pieces for Piano and Organ. 50 cents.
4 PEERLESS GEMS OF DANCE MUSIC. Price 50 cents.
5 PEERLESS GEMS OF SONG. Containing 62 favorite Songs. 50 Cents.
6 HER MAD LOVE. By Gerald Carlton.
7 KREUTZER SONATA BEARING FRUIT. By Pauline Grayson.
8 THE WEDDING RING. By Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage.
9 WOMAN AND HER POWER. By Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage.
10 THE BATTLE FOR BREAD. By Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage.
11 IZMA; OR SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. By M. Ozella Shields.
12 FRIENDSHIP'S TEST. By Amelia Burdette.
13 DIARY OF A VILLAGE GOSSIP. By Almedia M. Brown.
14 DIARY OF A MINISTER'S WIFE. Part 1. By Almedia M. Brown.
15 DIARY OF A MINISTER'S WIFE. Part 2. By Almedia M. Brown.
16 A BAD BOY'S DIARY.
17 BLUNDERS OF A BASHFUL MAN. By author of "A Bad Boy's Diary."
18 TWENTY-FIVE GOOD SERMONS. By Twenty-five Prominent Clergymen.
19 OGILVIE'S HOUSE PLANS; OR, HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE.
20 "NOT GUILTY." By author of "The Original Mr. Jacobs."
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Transcriber's note:
Obvious misspellings were corrected. Uncertain misspellings or
ancient words were not corrected.
For CHAPTER 19, the old-style Roman numeral XVIV was changed to
the more common XIX.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up
paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate.
There was no TABLE OF CONTENTS in the original. One has been
created here for convenience.