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Now, my child, you must do your duty and obey your parents as we must part, the sooner we part the better. Valerie, will you see that everything is ready for Caroline's going away to-morrow morning?" Saying this, Madame Bathurst disengaged herself from Caroline and quitted the room. It was a long while before I could reason the poor girl into anything like composure.
He at once left off active mischief; and if he could not avoid being occasionally troublesome, he at any rate cured himself of teazing people on purpose. And it was remarkable how many employments he found as soon as his mind was disengaged from mischief.
Some charitable person having reported in the company of a 'bonne amie' of Miot, that his wife did not pass her nights in solitude, but that she sought consolation among the many gallants and disengaged visitors at Morfontaine, he determined to surprise her. It was past eleven o'clock at night when his arrival was announced to Joseph, who had just retired to his closet.
A certain bewilderment, for our hero, disengaged itself from these remarks: they struck him as a contradiction, a retractation, strange on the part of a man who hadn't the excuse of witlessness. He had certainly not expected his correspondent to rejoice in the death of his wife, and it was perfectly in order that the rupture of a tie of more than twenty years should have left him sore.
Suddenly, without any warning, he disengaged one hand from the hot towels in which he was swathed and sat up. A hoarse cry broke from his lips as full recognition of the place in which he found himself forced itself upon him. With a wild light of terror in his eyes, he looked searchingly round him. "Where is he? Where is he?" cried he, in a thick whisper. Carrie's face grew dark.
Bates threw herself upon the guidance of a young office-hand the sole person present who seemed sufficiently disengaged to notice her. He asked her, with a mixture of surprise and deference, what name he should give. "Sue Lathrop, say," she responded, in an access of large and liberal recklessness.
She drew closer, in the gentle caressing way she had, and found my disengaged hand, her sweet face held upward so that I could mark every changing expression. "Never in my useless life was I farther removed from any spirit of mockery," she insisted, soberly; "for never before have I seen the presence of God so clearly manifest in His mysterious guidance of men.
"Francesca," said he, taking her hand, "is there a single regret in your heart?" She was silent, disengaged her hand which held her embroidered handkerchief, and again dried her eyes. "Forgive me!" he said. And with a rush, he kissed her eyes to wipe away the tears. Francesca did not seem aware of his passionate impulse, she was so violently agitated.
"I want to go there," I said; "but somebody told me to-day, there was nothing worth going for." "Has his report taken away your desire to make the trial?" "No, for I do not believe he is right." "Might I offer myself as a guide? I can be disengaged this afternoon; and I know all the ways to the fort. It would give me great pleasure." I felt it would give me great pleasure too, and so I told him.
As the rites of hospitality were, however, considered sacred among them, this little departure from the dignity of manhood excited no audible comment. Had there been one there sufficiently disengaged to become a close observer, he might have fancied that the services of the young chief were not entirely impartial.
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