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But in the morning, when the dauphin awoke, being but six or eight years of age, hearing the report of musketry and the turmoil still resounding in the streets, he threw his arms around his mother's neck, and, as he clung trembling to her bosom, exclaimed, "O mother! mother! is to-day yesterday again?" Soon after, his father came into the room.
In the unaffected and touching narrative which she gives of her own character, in the Journal which she subsequently wrote in the gloom of a prison, she alludes to the first rising of that mysterious passion in her bosom.
"Of me?" she questioned below her breath. "Of you," he said again. "For myself, I have got all I can ever hope for. But you you would be awfully happy, wouldn't you, if " "If " murmured Avery. He stooped again to kiss her white bosom. "And it would be a bond between us," he said, as if continuing some remark he had not uttered. She turned more fully to him. "Do we need that?" she said.
Ah, nothing is sweeter, holier, or more precious than love; and I can tell you that we women are happy only when we are under the influence of that divine passion. Congratulate me, then, my friends, for, thank God, I am in love! Now, Alexis, what have you to say?" "There are no words to express such a happiness," cried Alexis, pressing the feet of the princess to his bosom.
"For thus we look upon the dead more absolutely as in God, since, having died in Him, as we piously believe, they rest upon the bosom of His mercy.
A word as to her costume. Over a costly robe of Persian stuff, laced all over with silver, she wore a light silk tunic, open in front, and descending only to the knee. The high corsage was quite flat, and glittered with silver embroidery and fine pearls that covered every seam. Her luxuriant deep black hair fell over her bosom in two magnificent and remarkably long tresses.
But before he could lay hands on the child Silvine, all a-quiver with excitement, had thrown her arms about it and clasped it to her bosom. "He, a Prussian, never! He's French, was born in France!" "You say he's French! Look at him, and look at me; he's my very image. Can you say he resembles you in any one of his features?"
"And this is my sister?" said Bertram, giving way to all that family affection, which had so long slumbered in his bosom for want of an object to expand itself upon.
We will not attempt the vain task of describing her feelings through that terrible day; of picturing the alternate states of hope and deep despondency, that now made her heart bound with a lighter emotion, and now caused it to sink low, and almost pulseless, in her bosom. It passed away at last, and brought the gloomy night fall but not her husband's return.
After making a few hurried paces towards the tree, she stopped with one foot advanced in an appearance of sudden terror, and her eyes glanced wildly right and left. Her head was uncovered. A blue cloth wrapped her from her head to foot in close slanting folds, with one end thrown over her shoulder. A tress of her black hair strayed across her bosom.
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