The Chateau of Montplaisir

Louis Victor de Latour, recently become lord of the Chateau of Montplaisir, sat, the picture of misery, at a window of the grand saloon of the chateau looking out upon the gray...

“The only trouble is that Eugène has not a sou of his own. He is naturally pious, reserved, and strictly correct in his conduct, and my niece is of the same character. But Madam...

Monsieur de Latour, in the August afternoon, walked along the grand promenade, gay with elegant-looking women and well-dressed men sitting at tables, chatting, drinking tea, and...

“All I ask of you,” added Julie, with a sidelong glance which enforced her request, “is that you will let me play my little part undiscovered. It is no harm--how can it be? I si...

At that a look of intelligence flashed between Louis and Julie. By some occult means Louis understood that the prospect of being near him had something to do with the present ar...

It was with genuine enjoyment that Monsieur de Latour, on the tenth day after the influx of workmen in the chateau, saw the last of them depart and awaited the arrival of a hous...

“Now,” she said to Monsieur de Latour, “I am ready to do anything you ask me--that is, for half an hour, when I expect the dressmaker--then I shall have to leave you.”

And so the old lady had countenanced the trick his ward had played upon him! But he still held on to the three hundred thousand francs, and there would be no question of Julie a...

Julie ran and fetched pen and ink, put them on the table, and Monsieur de Latour drew his chair up to it and attempted to write, but it was impossible. That week in Paris had up...

“I sha’n’t make any trouble, monsieur; but I think it only fair to tell you that this is the most bloodthirsty old gentleman I ever came across in my life. He swore that he woul...

The author’s intention is to treat, in a series of four or five romances, that part of the war for independence which particularly affected the great landed families of northern...