Sibylle's story tr by M Watson Author:Octave Feuillet Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: amiable and ready to oblige in everything. The Ferias' natural tolerance, and the absolute necessity for a second at billiards and a fourth at whist, games which... more » the old Marquis much enjoyed, and in which the Chevalier excelled, further explained an intimacy between two such utterly opposite families. CHAPTER III. SIBYLLE. The Comte and Comtesse de Vergnes, Sibylle's maternal grandparents, who lived in Paris and moved in the best society, did not make the slightest objection to the proposal which the Ferias made to them soon after the sad event which had plunged both the families into mourning. This proposal was that Sibylle should remain in the country until the moment arrived when she would be ready to receive the last finishing touches to her education, then she was to go to the Hotel de Vergnes, whence she would make her entry into the world and prepare for her marriage. The Comtesse de Vergnes, a very worldly woman, still young, and striving to appear much younger than she really was, was specially delighted at an arrangement which deferred the moment when she must accept the role of grandmother and resign all pretensions to youth. We must confess that the first years of Sibylle Anne de Fe'rias' life were passed without the occurrence of any remarkable event. The child was pretty, with' large blue eyes, usually most gentle and serious, but becoming of a deeper tint when she gave vent to- noisy and mysterious fits of passion, only to be soothed by the incantations of her nurse. Sibylle, to tell thetruth, was quite sufficiently liable to those sudden tempers which do not form the most charming trait of childhood. One summer evening when they had just placed her in her cradle in front of a window left open on account of the great heat, she was seized with an access o...« less