Mrs.Welby still observed her companion.

A variety of expressions, all irritable or hostile, passed through the large, languid eyes.
* * * * * The afternoon faded--on the blue surface of the distant 'canal,' the great poplars that stand sentinel at the western edge of the Park, one to right, and one to left--last _gardes du corps_ of the House of France!--threw long shadows on the water; and across the opening which they marked, drifted the smoke of burning weeds, the only but sufficient symbol, amid the splendid scene, of that peasant France which destroyed Versailles.

It was four o'clock, and to their left, as they sat sheltered on the southern side of the chateau, the visitors of the day were pouring out into the gardens.

The shutters of the lower rooms, in the apartments of the Dauphin and of Mesdames, were being closed one by one, by the _gardiens_ within.

Eugenie peered through the window beside her.