It is a fine creation in pink and white, but I fear it lacks animation." "Now for the stairway in the wall," said Yolanda, settling herself with the pretty little movements peculiar to her when she was contented.

"As I told you, grandfather built it.

Afterward he ceded Peronne to King Louis, and for many years none of our family ever saw the castle.

A few years ago King Louis ceded it to my father.

Father has never lived here, and has visited Peronne only once in a while, for the purpose of looking after his affairs on the French border.