emblazoned, after all these terrible years, on a shield above the arched
porte-cochere, just as it was then, though the family is quite extinct.
Madame de Crequy had only one son, Clement, who was just the same age as
my Urian--you may see his portrait in the great hall--Urian's, I mean." I
knew that Master Urian had been drowned at sea; and often had I looked at
the presentment of his bonny hopeful face, in his sailor's dress, with
right hand outstretched to a ship on the sea in the distance, as if he
had just said, "Look at her! all her sails are set, and I'm just off."
Poor Master Urian! he went down in this very ship not a year after the
picture was taken! But now I will go back to my lady's story. "I can
see those two boys playing now," continued she, softly, shutting her
eyes, as if the better to call up the vision, "as they used to do five-
and-twenty years ago in those old-fashioned French gardens behind our
hotel. Many a time have I watched them from my windows. It was,
perhaps, a better play-place than an English garden would have been, for
there were but few flower-beds, and no lawn at all to speak about; but,
instead, terraces and balustrades and vases and flights of stone steps
more in the Italian style; and there were jets-d'eau, and little
fountains that could be set playing by turning water-cocks that were
hidden here and there. How Clement delighted in turning the water on to
surprise Urian, and how gracefully he did the honours, as it were, to my
dear, rough, sailor lad! Urian was as dark as a gipsy boy, and cared
little for his appearance, and resisted all my efforts at setting off his
black eyes and tangled curls; but Clement, without ever showing that he
thought about himself and his dress, was always dainty and elegant, even
though his clothes were sometimes but threadbare. He used to be dressed
in a kind of hunter's green suit, open at the neck and half-way down the
chest to beautiful old lace frills; his long golden curls fell behind
just like a girl's, and his hair in front was cut over his straight dark
eyebrows in a line almost as straight. Urian learnt more of a