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He has since acknowledged to me that he never felt more emotion in his life than in uttering that "Yes." "Mademoiselle Berthe ," continued the magistrate, turning to me, "do you swear to take for your husband " I bowed, with a smile, and said to myself: "Certainly; that is plain enough; I came here for that express purpose." That was all. I was married!
"What do you want me to do for you?" repeated Adelaide, with smiling persistence. "Mamma and I have an invitation to spend a week at Besançon you know, it's the splendid old chateau Louis Treize used to love to visit. It's still the seat of the Saint Berthè family, and the present Marquis, a dear friend of ours, is such a wonderful, fine old nobleman so simple and gracious and full of epigrams.
The fire was out, the clock went on ticking, and Emma vaguely marvelled at this calm of all things while within herself was such tumult But little Berthe was there, between the window and the work-table, tottering on her knitted shoes, and trying to come to her mother to catch hold of the ends of her apron-strings. "Leave me alone," said the latter, putting her from her with her hand.
In their abundant hospitality they insisted upon my staying to dinner, and proposed a drive up the valley of the Orbe. I could not resist; so up the lovely valley we drove, and passed the old chateau of the Reine Berthe, one of my favorite heroines, but, what was far more to me, passed the little town of Orbe.
"Dear Peter it's the day of our journey " He brushed the lather in gratefully with cold water. The touch of the razor gave him a queer pang such as he had never met before. "You're just a boy," Berthe remarked.... "It must make one feel clean. It has been years since I was present " The others were now awake.
Only four hours more but come, let us go down and after dinner, if you'll never tell Mrs. Peters, nor anybody, I'll try on my bridal dress and let you see if it is becoming. I want so much to know how it looks, since Maria put the rose-buds in the berthe. And then your story. I must hear that." As they were going down the stairs Miss Porter took Rosamond's hand and said, "How is this?
For I can not deny it. I am looking out for an opportunity to repair my clumsy mistake and show myself in a less unfavorable light than I did at that ill-starred visit. And she is the reason why I haunt his path! Ever since M. Mouillard threatened me with Mademoiselle Berthe Lorinet, the graceful outlines of Mademoiselle Jeanne have haunted me with a persistence to which I have no objection.
Then watching her sleep, the little anxiety she felt gradually wore off, and she seemed very stupid to herself, and very good to have been so worried just now at so little. Berthe, in fact, no longer sobbed. Her breathing now imperceptibly raised the cotton covering.
"I wonder if Justine, poor soul, will see the resemblance?" It had been a triumph of art, Madame Berthe Louison's magnificent dinner toilette, those rich robes which effaced the opening-rose beauty of the slim girl in the simplicity of her rare Indian lawn frock. Rich color and flowers and diamonds heightened the splendid loveliness of the woman who "looked like a queen in a play that night."
Camille Mauclair, an enthusiastic admirer of this school of art, says: "Berthe Morizot will remain the most fascinating figure of Impressionism the one who has stated most precisely the femininity of this luminous and iridescent art." A great-granddaughter of Fragonard, she seems to have inherited his talent; Corot and Renoir forcibly appealed to her.
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