Ma'amselle

No footmark must the hunter leave, Ma'amselle, unsplashed with water, no tainting touch of a hand ungloved on chain or stake or trap itself.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"Ah, Ma'amselle!" he said, bending before her with his courtly manner,

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"Is that seat big enough for two, Ma'amselle?" he asked impertinently, though the heart in him was thumping a bit.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

And, oh, Ma'amselle! "his voice fell low and trembling," I have seen more, -- the divinity within your spirit.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"'Tis all in a day's march, M'sieu," said De Courtenay, "and the sweet spirit of Ma'amselle is like to cross the Styx with us."

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"My heart, Ma'amselle," he said gallantly, as he pressed the fragile thing in her palm; and in another second he had stooped and kissed her, as he had kissed many another woman, lightly, delicately, in the face of the populace, joying to the depths of his careless nature in the dare of the thing.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"I thank you for those words, Ma'amselle," he said simply; "they are healing as the Confessional to my ragged soul."

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"Ma'amselle," he said presently, when the turquoise had faded to purple and the purple to velvet black, with the stars like a dowager's diamonds thickset upon it, "Ma'amselle, what think you is behind the stars?"

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"What yon ask is against all precedent, Ma'amselle, and I may lose my head for tampering with my orders, -- but I will see what can be done."

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"Think you Ma'amselle is bound?" whispered Dupre next; "I could not see for the swinging of the factor's body."

The Maid of the Whispering Hills