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What's yours?" Perrine did not want to give her real name, so she chanced on one. "Aurelie," she said. They rested for a while, then went on again at their regular step. "You say that the son had a quarrel with his father," said Perrine, "then went away?" "Yes, and the old gentleman got madder still with him 'cause he married a Hindu girl, and a marriage like that doesn't count.
In the meantime Mademoiselle Aurelie was running over the ladies' names for Helene's benefit, as this was only the latter's second evening visit to the doctor's house. The most substantial people of Passy, some of them rolling in riches, were present. And the old maid leaned towards Helene and whispered in her ear: "Yes, it seems it's all arranged.
When Monsieur de Rochefide first encountered Madame Schontz, she lived on the third floor of the only house that remained in the rue de Berlin; thus she was camping on the border-land between misery and its reverse. This person was not really named, as you may suppose, either Schontz or Aurelie.
"Oh! won't it be dull to live in that little town!" cried Aurelie, philosophically. "I have heard so much of that province from d'Esgrignon and the Val-Noble that I seem to have lived there already." "Suppose I promise you the support of the nobility?" "Ah! Maxime, you don't mean that? but the pigeon won't fly."
"That is all ... just Aurelie," she replied. "All right, Aurelie; come on with me," he said. He took her to a small truck stationed in a far corner and explained what she had to do, the same as Rosalie had. "Do you understand?" he shouted several times. She nodded. And really what she had to do was so simple that she would indeed have been stupid if she had been unable to do it.
He kneeled to the king, his speech was full mild: "Hail be thou, Aurelie, noblest of all kings! Hither me sent Uther, that is thine own brother; and I all for God's love am here to thee come. For I will heal, and all whole thee make, for Christ's love, God's son; I reck not any treasure, nor meed of land, nor of silver nor of gold, but to each sick person I do it for love of my Lord."
Then was Aurelie the king pleased well through all things; he proceeded into Coningsburgh, with all his folk, and thanked the Lord for such might. Three days and three nights the king dwelt there forth-right, to heal the wounds of his dear knights, and rest in the burgh their weary bones.
"You are not boring me, Aurelie," said the blind man. "On the contrary, I am pleased to know, what an honest little girl you are. I like people who have courage, will, and determination, and who do not easily give up. If I like finding such qualities in men, how much more pleasure does it give me to find them in a girl of your age!
"I shall always be proud to be a follower of yours." "Ah! my dear fellow, you have had quite an escape. Just imagine! Aurelie took a fancy for that Norman from Alencon; she asked to have him made a baron, and chief-justice in his native town, and officer of the Legion of honor! The fool never guessed her value, and you will owe your fortune to her disappointment.
"What is your name?" he asked. "Aurelie." "Where are your father and mother?" "They are both dead." "How long have you been in my employ?" "For three weeks." "Where do you come from?" "I have just come from Paris." "You speak English?" "My mother was English, and I can speak in conversation, and I understand, but...." "There are no 'buts'; you know or you do not know."
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