and the stones thereof, and the owls, and the

"Doucement! Monsieur le Baron," said Louis, fearing that a sort of Ernulphian curse, in which the purchaser might be included, was commencing; "It's hardly fair to wish them any ill now."

"If I had never seen them, it would have been all the better," replied the other, "but I must needs be like other fools; and so I "kept up" my title by knocking it down. Well, never mind now-you say I may sport here?"

"Aye, and live here, too, as before," said Louis," as long as you think fit."

"The devil I shall!" exclaimed the other. "Then I don't care a straw for what's past."

And on that day it was the Baron of Braanksdorfischen's good will and pleasure to get drunk, from which it will be an easy matter for the reader to guess what sort of a man he was. togeɩuis completed his purchase, and returned

with his new title to Switzerland, where he was

most gracefully and most graciously received by And there-the very

Emilie and her parent.

recollection of the place makes one poetical

Upon the margin of that azure lake,

Whose limpid waves come rippling to the shore,
He vowed he loved her for her own dear sake,
And she believed-what could a lady more!

They talked and sauntered by that water's edge;
They talked and sauntered on the mountain's side;
'Mid foliage, whispering, took and gave a pledge,
We say not what, for love was aye their guide.

And he, as usual, led them Lord knows where.

*

Notwithstanding divers exquisitely polished expressions of gratitude and friendship, which M. le Comte de Tien à la Cour had, from time to time, addressed to M. Louis Desonges, there was ever a most superb stiffness added to his usual perpendicularity whenever the said Desonges ven

tured upon anything like familiarity with Emilie in his presence. Like Juliet's father, he thought there was something in a name; and so, when Louis assumed unto himself the title of Baron de Braanksdorfischen, he was pleased to be extremely gracious. As for the matter of pedigree, Louis was of a very respectable family, and felt no sort of compunction at the ingenuity or research of a certain tracer of genealogies, who had undertaken, in consequence of weighty considerations propounded unto him, to delineate a tree of consanguinity. The new Baron was somewhat startled to find that his great grandfathers and great grandmothers were related to, and connected with, several of the most ancient houses in France; but, he was determined to believe if possible, and that is a great matter in such cases. The document had its expected influence upon the Comte, for it was drawn out and blazoned in due heraldric terms and forms; and, perhaps,

he likewise was resolved to believe. As for Emilie, like most of her sex, when once fairly in love, it would have been much the same thing to her had her lover changed his name to Bourreau, for she was much of Juliet's way of thinking, that " a rose with any other name would smell as sweet."

My dear M. le Baron," said M. le Comte,

you must be well aware of the sincerity, I might almost say, the devotion of my attachment and friendship. You are the only man upon the face of the earth, his Catholic Majesty alone excepted, from whom I would have deigned to accept any sort of assistance in the present state of things; but, my daughter is now, alas ! the sole hope, the only remaining branch of an ancient and most illustrious house; and, indeed, I am glad to find, what, however, I never doubted, that you really are so closely allied to the Montmorencies, the Grammonts, and the

Choiseuls.

When we return to France, I have no doubt that I can, from my connections at Versailles, have the affair of succession arranged; and that my title will descend when I am gone, which, in the common course of things, cannot"

"I beseech you, my dear M. le Comte," exclaimed the Baron of Braanksdorfischen, "to spare my feelings. I trust you will long live to enjoy your title and estates. I see no reason why you should not marry again, and that they should descend in regular succession to your heirs male."

"Nor I neither, M. le Baron," said the Comte, "It is a good idea. We will see about it;” and forthwith he advanced to a large mirror, and paid his respects to his own respectable figure reflected therein.

The marriage took place immediately, and was, like most other marriages wherein money is abun