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"Do you think," I asked the Bonnie Lassie, who was sharing my bench one afternoon as Julien was taking the patroness of Art over to where her car waited, "that she is doing him as much good as she thinks she is, or ought to?" "Malice ill becomes one of your age, Dominie," said the Bonnie Lassie with dignity. "I'm quite serious," I protested. "And very unjust.
But what astonished Julien quite as much was that she seemed to have received a degree of education superior to that of people of her condition, and he wondered at the amount of will-power by which a nature highly cultivated, relatively speaking, could conform to the unrefined, rough surroundings in which she was placed.
There were all the horrible smells of a packet-boat in their cabin, so Jeanne and Julien wrapped themselves in their cloaks and lay down side by side on deck. Julien went to sleep directly, but Jeanne lay looking up at the host of stars which sparkled with so bright and clear a light in this soft Southern sky; then the monotonous noise of the engines made her drowsy, and at last she fell asleep.
Instead, therefore, of quitting the dining-room after dessert, and whistling to his dog to accompany him in his habitual promenade, the 'grand chasserot' remained seated, poured out a small glass of brandy, and slowly filled his pipe. Surprised to see that he was remaining at home, Julien rose and began to pace the floor, wondering what could be the reason of this unexpected change.
Reine proposed to her companion to enter the hut and rest, while waiting for the return of the dancers. Julien accepted readily; but not without being surprised that the young girl should be the first to suggest a tete-a-tete in the obscurity of a remote hut.
"If we now obtain a better general," said Julien, "it is to be hoped, that this system of overreached severity and cruelty would be given up and trial made of gentle means." "No good subject of the king can counsel that," said the Intendant taking a hasty leave of the Colonel.
It is possible that within a very short time I may find myself in such a position here that I am forced to know exactly who are my friends and who my enemies." "Can you believe," she asked, "that you would ever find me among the latter?" Julien thought for several moments. "I shall not ask you," he proceeded, "not to be offended with me for what I am going to say.
And Julien, holding the inspection, nodded gravely to their comments, searching car after car with his eyes as he walked up the garage, until they rested on the head and the hair of the girl he knew; then he paused, three cars from her, and watched the head as it hung motionless, level with the lamp she had just turned into a mirror. And within the field of her vision he had just appeared.
He stopped short. "Kendricks, by Jove!" he exclaimed. Kendricks, sitting alone at a small table, with a bottle of champagne in front of him and a huge cigar in his mouth, waved his hand joyfully. Then he glanced at his friend's companions, frowned for a moment, and gazed fixedly at Herr Freudenberg. "Julien, by all that's lucky!" he called out. "And I haven't been in Paris four hours!
"Ho, ho!" exclaimed he, in his usual, sarcastic tone, "what a hurry you are in! I suppose you have come to say the wedding-day is fixed at last?" "No!" replied Claudet, briefly, "there will be no wedding." Julien tottered, and turned to face his cousin. "What's that? Are you joking?" "I am in no mood for joking. Reine will not have me; she has taken back her promise."
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