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At the moment of drawing back, Adrienne said to Mother Bunch, with so sweet a smile and affectionate a tone, that it was impossible not to believe her sincere: "M. Agricola told me that I had a heart like yours. I now understand how honorable, how flattering those words were for me.

"But console yourself," resumed the young girl; "we have yet no reason to despair." "To despair?" repeated the marshaling by turns at Mdlle. de Cardoville despair? "of what, in heaven's name?" "Of seeing your children, marshal," said Adrienne; "the presence of their father will facilitate the search." "The search!" cried Pierre Simon. "Then, my daughters are not here?"

That morning, Adrienne had risen free, smiling, happy, in the midst of all the wonders of luxury and art, and surrounded by the delicate attentions of the three charming girls whom she had chosen to serve her.

"Good heaven, sir!" said Adrienne, "what formidable association? Until now I never heard of it." "I believe you; and yet your ignorance on this subject greatly astonishes me, my dear young lady." "And why should it astonish you?" "Because you lived some time with your aunt, and must have often seen the Abbe d'Aigrigny."

Then, staring at the doctor, she half opened her lips; but they trembled so much that it was impossible for her to utter a word. Anger, indignation, contempt, and, above all, the bitter and acutely painful feeling of a generous heart, whose confidence has been basely betrayed, so overpowered Adrienne that she was unable to break the silence. "Come, come!

To love Marianne, ah! yes, the unhappy man, he still loved her. When he thought of Marianne, it was more in wrath, when he thought of Adrienne, it was more in pity; but, certainly, his wife's determination to leave Paris caused him less emotion than the thought that his mistress was to wed Rosas. That very evening he went to Marianne's. They told him that Madame was at the theatre. Where?

Stray remarks of Olga Lermontof's came back to her those little pointed arrows wherewith the Russian had skilfully found out the joints in her armour "Miss de Gervais is not quite what she seems." And again, "I'm perfectly sure Adrienne de Gervais' past is a closed book to you." Proof positive that Olga had known all along what Diana had only just this moment perceived to be the truth.

"I know you are my friend," said Adrienne: "I shall never forget that, by taking my part to-day, you exposed yourself to the resentment of my aunt for I am not ignorant of her power, which is very great, alas! for evil." "As for that," said the doctor, affecting a profound indifference, "we medical men are pretty safe from personal enmities." "Nay, my dear M. Baleinier!

"Bravo, my dear child!" said the count, joyfully. "The execution will be complete." "Oh! this is meant for an execution?" said Rodin, still impassible. "No, sir," answered Adrienne, with a smile; "it is a simple conversation between a poor young girl and an old philosopher, the friend of humanity.

Two hours after these different scenes, an enormous crowd pressed round the doors of the Porte-Saint-Martin, to witness the exercises of Morok, who was about to perform a mock combat with the famous black panther of Java, named Death. Adrienne, accompanied by Lord and Lady de Morinval, now stepped from a carriage at the entrance of the theatre.