So droll was it that I laughed outright, and he, as quick in humour as in temper, stood hand on hip, and presently came to a smile.

With that my cousin Secord cried: 'The king! the king!' I got me up quickly--" Here Gaston, who had in a kind of dream acted the whole scene, swayed with faintness, and Cluny caught him, saving him from a fall.

Cluny's colour was all gone.

Lady Dargan had sat dazed, and Sir William's face was anxious, puzzled.
A few hours later Sir William was alone with Gaston, who was recovered and cool.
"Gaston," he said, "I really do not understand this faculty of memory, or whatever it is.

Have you any idea how you come by it ?" "Have we any idea how life comes and goes, sir ?" "I confess not.