Beyond the Rocks

Josiah Brown bought one every year and travelled with it, although until

he met the Fitzgerald family he had not known a single person connected

with it; but it pleased him to be able to look up his wife's name, and

to read that her mother was the daughter of a real live earl and her

father the brother of a baronet.

"Hector! I like the name of Hector," were the last coherent thoughts

which floated through the brain of Theodora before sleep closed her

broad, white lids.

Meanwhile, Lord Bracondale had gone on to sup at the Café de Paris, with

Marion de Beauvoison and Esclarmonde de Chartres; and among the diamonds

and pearls and scents and feathers he suddenly felt a burning disgust,

and a longing to be out again in the moonlight--alone with his thoughts.

"Mais qu'as tu, mon vieux chou?" they said. "Ce bel Hector chéri--il a

un béguin pour quelqu'un--mais ce n'est pas pour nous autres!"