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"It would pay off everything, and a great deal more," said the countess. "It was ointment, was it not, aunt?" said Augusta. "I believe so, my dear; something called the ointment of Lebanon, or something of that sort: but there's no doubt about the money." "But how old is she, Rosina?" asked the anxious mother. "About thirty, I suppose; but I don't think that much signifies."
The Countess Dowager of Horn, both whose sons now lay in the jaws of death, occupied herself also with the most moving appeals to the same high personages. No pains were spared to make the triple plea to the jurisdiction valid.
After dinner, instead of going out as on the evening before, they spent the hours in the drawing-room. Suddenly the Countess said: "We must leave here soon." "Oh, don't speak of that yet!" Olivier exclaimed. "You would not leave Roncieres when I was not here; now what I have come, you think only of going away." "But, my dear friend," said she, "we three cannot remain here indefinitely."
Sibilet was in charge of the works and the Abbe Brossette gave the countess lists of the most needy, and often brought them to her himself. Madame de Montcornet attended to these matters personally in the great antechamber which opened upon the portico.
The following day had been appointed for the mass for the dead in St. Sebald's Church. Els had told Eva that the countess had seen Heinz Schorlin at the consecration. The news pleased her, and she expressed her joy so animatedly and spoke so confidently of the knight's love that Els felt anxious.
We are off, and shall not see you again till dinner-time. Through the park-gate we stream away, down the fir avenue, along the Welsh Ride. We have got a splendid start, and our horses fly on beside Countess Morella, who looks the perfection of a hunting lady in her plain neat habit just down to her feet.
Why should she not be Countess of Maulevrier in her own right? But in order to make this future possible the most important factor in the sum was yet to be found in the person of a husband for Lady Lesbia a husband worthy of peerless beauty and exceptional wealth, a husband whose own fortune should be so important as to make him above suspicion.
This strong conviction went with the girl to the vestry, and made it easier to turn away when his name his real name, which she, though his wife, was not to know was recorded by him in the book. They parted from Torrance, Morello, and the Countess at the church door, an arrangement which delighted Annesley.
"I remember once," says the Countess De Merlin, "a friend advised her not to make Otello pursue her so long when he was about to kill her. Her answer was: 'You are right; it is not elegant, I admit; but, when once I fairly enter into my character, I never think of effects, but imagine myself actually the person I represent.
Well, this is an odd meeting. I telegraphed you, Countess, to the hotel at Cuneo, where we arranged our rendezvous, in case you arrived before me, to say that I was on the way; but now we will all go there together. Since we parted I have had adventures. So, evidently, have you.
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