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YVON AND FINELLE pleasures of the feast, and that the meanest peasant might have the honor of saluting them by emptying his cup of hydromel to the honor and prosperity of the high and mighty house of Kerver. The baron seated the hundred knights at his table, and placed their sguires behind their chairs to serve them. At his right he put the bride and Yvon, but he left the seat at his left vacant, and, calling a page, " Child," said he, "run to the house of the stranger lady who obliged us only too much this morning. It was not her fault if her success exceeded her good will. Tell her that the Baron Kerver thanks her for her help and invites her to the wedding feast of his son, Lord Yvon." On reaching the golden house, where Finette, in tears, was mourning for her beloved, the page bent one knee to the ground and, in the barons name, invited the stranger lady to the castle to do honor to the wedding of Lord Yvon. -"Thank your master for me," answered the young girl, proudly, "and tell him that if he is too noble to come to my house, I am too noble to go to his." When the page repeated this answer to his master the Baron Kerver struck the table such a blow that three plates flew in the air. "By my honor,” said he, "this is spoken like a lady, and for the first time I own myself beaten. Quick, saddle my 4]
