The display of this love was painful to witness, as its end was frightful to think of.

The Princess made no disguise of it.

If Magny spoke a word to a lady of her household, she would be jealous, and attack with all the fury of her tongue the unlucky offender.

She would send him a half-dozen of notes in the day: at his arrival to join her circle or the courts which she held, she would brighten up, so that all might perceive.

It was a wonder that her husband had not long ere this been made aware of her faithlessness; but the Prince Victor was himself of so high and stern a nature that he could not believe in her stooping so far from her rank as to forget her virtue: and I have heard say, that when hints were given to him of the evident partiality which the Princess showed for the equerry, his answer was a stern command never more to be troubled on the subject.