When Valmond Came to Pontiac, volume 2.

Prince or plebeian, Valmond played his part with equal aplomb at thesimple home of Elise Malboir and at the Manoir Hilaire, where MadameChalice received him. His dress had nothing of the bizarre on thisoccasion. He was in black-long coat, silk stockings, the collar of hiswaistcoat faced with white, his neckerchief white and full, his enamelledshoes adorned with silver buckles. His present repose and decorumcontrasted strangely with the fanciful display at his first introduction.Madame Chalice approved instantly, for though the costume was, in itself,an affectation, previous to the time by a generation, it was in thepicture, was sedately refined. She welcomed him in the salon where manyanother distinguished man had been entertained--from Frontenac, andVaudreuil, down to Sir Guy Carleton. The Manor had belonged to herhusband's people seventy-five years before, and though, as a banker inNew York, Monsieur Chalice had become an American of the Americans, ather request he had bought back fr