"Is there not something you have forgotten, count?" asked Anthony.
"Odds fish! Yes! I forgot to marry your sister," answered De Grammont,
appropriating the king's oath, and apparently astounded at his own
forgetfulness. "Thank you, dear count, for reminding me. I'll go back
to London and do it at once."
"Your parole?" asked Anthony.
"Yes, the word of a De Grammont," answered the count, whereupon the
Hamiltons lifted their hats and galloped home, knowing certainly that De
Grammont would follow.
De Grammont reached London soon after sun-up, and, true to his word,
married Miss Hamilton, blessed his stars ever afterward for having done
so, and gave her no cause for unhappiness save a French one.
Soon after the sale to Wentworth, I received a letter from George telling
me that King Louis had not only made him rich, but had appointed him
Governor of Dunkirk, with promise of further advancement. George said,
also, that the French king, having heard of my part in the Dunkirk
transaction and my disgrace with my king, had offered to advance my
interest if I would go to France. In a postscript to the letter, which
was much longer than the letter itself, Frances told me how she and
George had been married immediately on landing in France, and were living
very happily in Paris, where they would remain until George should take
up the government of Dunkirk.
So it had all fallen out just as one might have expected to find it
in a story-book.
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