I Loved Evelyn Duchalay

The richest blessings of our lives are often those which cost us least. I wasted the best years of my youth in the worship of a wicked woman who jilted and cheated me at last. Then gentlemen and lackeys were trampling one another to death in the Rucan Compuat. The only child of this little cross-grained old captain of Dragoons was an incarnate sunbeam, whose mortal name was Evelyn Duchalay. She loved me. Ah, how sweet a change there was in my life and in my home"