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CHAPTER III A NEW FRIEND " T3UT you're doing the ' Tranquillus '
capi- - tally " cried Jeanne, bursting with suppressed giggles, as
she helped Mayken to unfasten her new girdle. " Oh, but you did
look tranquil, with your head leaning back, and those dark lashes
resting on your pink cheeks And I, if it had been I, Madame would
have shaken me well; but she looked at you as if you were that
naughty, impertinent son of hers, the Prince Alexander. Have you
seen him yet? Madame adores him. . . . ' Amid cruel waves,'" she
rattled on, holding up the second clasp; " well, if Madame Renard
and the rest of them are not cruel waves, I 'm a Spaniard They
looked ready to drown you, too; they don't like a new favorite."
Poor little Mayken, she was already heartbroken, and Jeanne's
teasing added to the torture. " How could I Oh, how could I go to
sleep " she said, forcing back the tears and looking at Jeanne in
despair. " It didn't look difficult " cried Jeanne, mockingly
leaning her head against the high back of a great oak chair and
letting her eyelids gradually droop. Then she shook her yellow
curls out of the jewelled net that confined them, and seized Mayken
affectionately around the waist. " And now, my dear cousin, Madame
will be truly angry if you are not with her very soon. Come, Gu-
dula, and make Mademoiselle of Orange ready for bed " she called to
the round-faced Dutch maid who stood waiting at the door. The
sunny, laughing little Jeanne of Egmont adored her cousin Marie,
and was very happy in having her at court; but from babyhood she
could never resist teasing "the serious little thing," and Mayken
was always in alarm over Jeanne's daring ways. Mayken went back to
the bedchamber, feeling frightened and tired out. But the Duchess
spoke very kindly to her, and Madam...
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