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After a time I saw that I'd fooled them, and that shamed me. Then I had to keep it up or become ridiculous. But it nearly killed me." "If you're speaking the truth, I'm not sure you're such a coward as you make out," Norine said. "Oh yes, I am. Wait! Before I knew it I had a reputation. Then I had to live up to it." The speaker groaned.
Then, on looking at her, she seemed to him so wretched, so painfully tortured, that without a word, making indeed but a kindly gesture of compassion, he consented. And the cab carried them away. The large room in which Norine and Cecile lived together was at Grenelle, near the Champ de Mars, in a street at the end of the Rue de la Federation.
Leon, who had been brought with his nurse, embraced his foster sister; and the cousin, who that very morning had boxed the orphan's ears for negligence in sweeping out the hall, appeared before the Parisians to be as much touched as if parting with Norine was a heart-breaking affair. The order for an ample breakfast restored his serenity.
Although Norine had pretended to wash her hands of all responsibility for Branch's little charge, she was by no means so inhuman as she appeared. During the day she kept a jealous eye upon it, and especially upon its diet. Fortunately for all concerned, it was a good-natured child; so long as its stomach was full it was contented.
"As for me, my dear Arribas, I remained in deep agitation, an attentive spectator of the scene; and while Justin and Norine, set both alike in the winepress of sorrow, le pressoir de la douleur, as your good books express it, murmured to each other their broken consoling words, I saw them again, in thought, young, handsome, in the full flower of life, under the cherry-trees, the swarming goldfinches, of blind Barthélemy Jalaguier.
Norine was engaged in straightening up the interior of the bark hut in which her patient was installed; she ceased her labors to inquire with lifted brows: "Tut! Tut! Pray what do you mean by that?" "There's something desperately wrong with me and I realized it long ago. So did you, but your good heart wouldn't let you "
"Every Cuban will know who Miss Evans is, and what she has done for our cause. You do not seem to have a high regard for our chivalry, sir." "There!" Norine was triumphant. "There is bound to be some danger, of course," Enriquez continued, "for the coast is well patrolled; but once the expedition is landed, Miss Evans will be among friends.
I'm a sick man; if I'd rather get shot than suffer a slow death from neglect, it's my own business, isn't it? Imagine feeding an invalid on boiled bicycle tires! Gee! I'd like to have a meal of nice nourishing ptomaines for a change. Hero? Humph!" Norine eyed the complainant critically, then said: "The diet agrees with you. You look better than you did."
The time came finally when he could no longer permit the girl to deceive herself or him with her brave assumption of cheerfulness. Norine had just told him that he was doing famously, but he smiled and shook his weary head. "Let's be honest," he said. "You know and I know that I can't get well."
"God be praised! I know where there is a goat, not two leagues away!" said the colonel. "But I don't want a goat," Norine complained. "I want well, pickles, and jam, and sardines, and candy, and tooth-powder! Real boarding-school luxuries. I'd just like to rob a general store." Lopez furrowed his brows and lost himself in thought.
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