The trees between the walks were all cherry-trees--old standard trees of a variety of sorts; but they all bore fruit of some description or another, some sweet and some bitter; some large, some small, and some perfectly diminutive; some black, some red, and some white.

Every species of known cherry was in that garden in abundance; but even the gardener himself did not know the extent of the produce.

Birds of all kinds flocked there in enormous numbers, and banqueted gloriously during the summer.

No one disturbed them except the painted sportsman; and the song of the linnet and the thrush was heard all day, and that of the nightingale during the night.
The old Marquis de Larochejaquelin had been crossed in love early in life, and he had not recovered from his sorrow till he was above fifty, when he married, and outlived his young wife, who left him different children.

Henri and Agatha were the only two now living with him.