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Does he wish me to assist in some good work or to undertake to collect money, which I hate." "Above all, mother," cried Fred, "don't expose me to the fatigue of receiving his visit. Go and see him yourself. Giselle will take care of your patient while you are gone. Won't you, Giselle?" His voice was soft, and very affectionate.
"Oh! mamma, you can't be thinking of sending me to a convent!" cried Jacqueline, in tones of comic despair. "I did not say that but I really think it might be good for you to make a retreat where your cousin Giselle is, instead of plunging into follies which interrupt your progress." "Do you call Madame d'Etaples's 'bal blanc' a folly?"
He is going to see a new play tonight which they say promises to be very good." "What! Will he leave you alone all the evening?" "Oh! I am very glad he should find amusement. Just think how long it is that I have been pinned down here! Poor Oscar!" The arrival of the expected Enguerrand hindered Giselle from pleading Fred's cause as soon as she could have wished.
Only his papa wants us to give him a name that I think is too long for him, because it has always been in the family Enguerrand." "His name will be longer than himself, I should say, judging by the dimensions of this cap," said Fred, trying to laugh. "Bah!" replied Giselle, gayly, "but we can get over it by calling him Gue-gue or Ra-ra. What do you think?
"Indeed, Giselle, you are losing your senses. If I were not afraid of agitating Fred " He was, in truth, greatly agitated.
Then, seizing her friend's hand, she forcibly raised it to her lips: "Ah! what can anything matter to me," she cried, "if only you remain my friend; and he has never doubted me!" "Women like you can always find defenders," said Giselle, tearing her hand from her cousin's grasp. Giselle was not herself at that moment.
Had I been Giselle, I should not have liked it. I know nothing more elegant or more solemn than the entrance of a bridal party into the Madeleine, but we shall have to be content with Saint-Augustin. Still, the toilettes, as they pass up the aisle, even there, are very effective, and the decoration of the tall, high altar is magnificent. Toc! Toc!
The way in which he fixed his eyes upon her gave great offense to Fred, and did it not alarm and shock Giselle? No! Giselle looked on calmly at the fun and talk around her, as unmoved as the stump of a tree, spoiling the game sometimes by her ignorance or her awkwardness, well satisfied that M. de Talbrun should leave her alone. Talking with him was very distasteful to her.
Such were the lessons Giselle herself had been taught by the Benedictine nuns, who, however deficient they might be in the higher education of women, knew at least how to bring up young girls with a view to making them good wives.
He seemed to be instructing the motionless and scared Giselle. . . . "A man should not be tame," he added, dogmatically out of the doorway. Her stillness and silence seemed to displease him. "Do not give way to the enviousness of your sister's lot," he admonished her, very grave, in his deep voice. Presently he had to come to the door again to call in his younger daughter. It was late.
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