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We wished, like you, to do something generous to help our governess." "And we did not think to die so quickly, and so soon. Yesterday, we were gay and happy." "Oh, good angel! you will appear to our father, even as you have appeared to us. You will tell him that, in dying the last thought of his children was of him." "We came here without Dagobert's knowing it do not let our father scold him."
These last words of Mrs. Grivois made a favorable impression upon the two sisters, and banished their fears of becoming a heavy burden to Dagobert's family. If it had been proposed to them to quit altogether the house in the Rue Bris-Miche, without first asking the consent of their old friend, they would certainly have hesitated; but Mrs. Grivois had only spoken of an hour's visit.
Rose and Blanche looked at each other in surprise. Frances took the letter with a trembling hand. It required all the pressing and threatening injunctions of her confessor to conquer the last scruples of the poor woman, for she shuddered at the thought of Dagobert's terrible indignation.
Let us find some employment, and earn our own living. It must be so proud and happy to earn one's living!" "Good little sister," said Blanche, kissing Rose. "What happiness! You have forestalled my thought; kiss me!" "How so?" "Your project is mine exactly. Yesterday, when I heard Dagobert's wife complain so sadly that she had lost her sight.
"I had not remarked your arm in a sling. What is the wound?" At a sign from Agricola, Dagobert answered: "Nothing; the consequence of a fall. But here I am, to unveil many infamies." It is impossible to paint the curiosity, anguish, surprise, or fear, of the different actors in this scene, as they listened to Dagobert's threatening words. But the most overcome was Gabriel.
Burgomaster, if this would not touch your heart? Would you not find, as I do, that the loss of my horse is irreparable?" "Certainly," answered the burgomaster, who was not ill natured at bottom, and who could not help taking part in Dagobert's emotion; "I now understand the importance of the loss you have suffered. And then your orphans interest me: how old are they?"
By skillful devices, Dagobert and his son Agricola were drawn out of the way while Rose and Blanche Simon were decoyed into a nunnery, under the eyes of Dagobert's wife. But she had been bound against interfering by the influence of the Jesuit confessional.
"I feel as frightened as you yourself. Alas! were we both to be lost in this immense city, what would become of us?" "Do not let us give way to such ideas, Blanche! Are we not here in Dagobert's house, in the midst of good people?" "And yet, sister," said Rose, with a pensive air, "it is perhaps good for us to have had this thought." "Why so?"
I would not for the world that they should know of this unfortunate event." Then as he listened, the soldier resumed: "I hear nothing and yet they are always awake so early. Can it be sorrow?" Dagobert's reflections were here interrupted by two frank, hearty bursts of laughter, from the interior of the bedroom. "Come! they are not so sad as I thought," said the soldier, breathing more freely.
We wished, like you, to do something generous to help our governess." "And we did not think to die so quickly, and so soon. Yesterday, we were gay and happy." "Oh, good angel! you will appear to our father, even as you have appeared to us. You will tell him that, in dying the last thought of his children was of him." "We came here without Dagobert's knowing it do not let our father scold him."
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