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She caught sight of Pauline smiling through her tears that same unprotesting, submissive smile and holding out her hands to her. Selma, rising, turned away, and as her sister-in-law sought to put her arm about her, evaded the caress. "No no," she said. Then facing her, added, with aggrieved conviction: "I cannot believe that Wilbur's death was necessary. Why was not something energetic done?"
The little group of people were all leaning forward with eyes riveted upon Pauline Marrabel. Even Rochester's expression had become a little tense. "Think again," Saton said. "There was only a corner of the wood between you and that field when the shot was fired. You are walking there now, now, as the shots are fired. Bend forward. You can see through those trees if you try.
She is a fearless girl. She cares for nobody. She can do what no other young woman could attempt, without exciting criticism, or if there is criticism it falls harmless at her feet." For the first time in all these days, Pauline experienced something akin to an envy of her brilliant friend. That is, she envied her spirit of independence.
Most of the persons of both sexes composing the household of Cardinal Fesch were from his own country, Corsica; among these was one of the name of Pauline Riotti, who inspected the economy of the kitchens.
"Perhaps there may be," he said, with a bitter and disappointed look, "but I do not know of it." "Oh, Richard, do not be angry with me. Think how hard it is for me always to be disappointing you. I have a great deal of trouble!" "Yes, Pauline, I know you have," he said, sitting down by me, and taking my hand in a repentant way.
I said I hadn't noticed anything except that he was rather dirty. Pauline said, "Of course he is dirty; what would you be, if you ran after cabs all day?" I wondered. Talking of cab-runners, I told her of the children's party I went to with Cousin Penelope, who, very much afraid that she was late, said in her sweetest manner to a man who opened the cab-door for us, "Are we late?"
This is a digression, but it perhaps explains Pauline and Pauline's wedding, and the joy with which all the people in the village entered into it. The strangest people kept on arriving the morning of the wedding. It was verily a gathering of the halt, the lame, and the blind all friends of Pauline's.
Up to this time the interest, not to say delight, with which they went about their daily avocations, the fineness of the weather, and the romance of their situation, had prevented their minds from dwelling much on the flight of time, and if Pauline had not remembered the Sundays by conscientiously keeping a daily record with a pencil on a piece of bark, not one of them would have believed it possible that two months had elapsed since they were cast ashore.
"In her exclamation there was something like belief in her mother's absurd superstitions. "'You are very credulous, Pauline! "'The woman whom you will love is going to kill you there is no doubt of it, she said, looking at me with alarm. "She took up her brush again and dipped it in the color; her great agitation was evident; she looked at me no longer.
Babie, when all others cast me off, will you too forsake me?" "No, I will not! Only love me, and I can forgive, forget, and still be happy!" Pauline was right. The spaniel-like nature still loved the hand that struck it, and Mrs. Redmond joyfully returned to the arms from which she had so lately fled.
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