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THE GALLANT IN THE GARDEN.
Madame de Bergenheim's apartments occupied the first floor of the wing on the left side of the house.

On the ground floor were the library, a bathroom, and several guest-chambers.

The large windows had a modern look, but they were made to harmonize with the rest of the house by means of grayish paint.

At the foot of this facade was a lawn surrounded by a wall and orange-trees planted in tubs, forming a sort of English garden, a sanctuary reserved for the mistress of the castle, and which brought her, as a morning tribute, the perfume of its flowers and the coolness of its shade.
Through the tops of the fir-trees and the tuliptrees, which rose above the group of smaller shrubs, the eye could follow the winding river until it finally disappeared at the extremity of the valley.