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The moonshine was still supreme, when some time later a certain ominous silence and half-whisper between the two women at the hearth made Eustacie, with a low cry of terror, exclaim, 'Nurse, nurse, what means this? Oh! He lives! I know he lives! Perrine, I command you tell me! 'Living! Oh, yes, my love, my Lady, answered Perrine, returning towards her; 'fair and perfect as the day.
What a lot of good he could have done, however, not only here, but everywhere, if he had wished, by setting an example. Had he been more to his men you may be sure that the church would not have been as empty as it was today." Perhaps that was true, but how it hurt Perrine to hear this from the lips of her governess, of whom she was so fond.
I can die in peace now with this thought ... Perrine, my Perrine, keep a place in your heart for me always, child...." These words, which seemed like an exaltation to Heaven, had exhausted her; she sank back on the mattress and sighed. Perrine waited ... waited. Her mother did not speak. She was dead. Then the child left the bedside and went out of the house.
Eustacie had been their pet in her younger days; now she was out of their reach, they tried in turn to comfort her; and when she would not be comforted, they, too, felt aggrieved by the presence of one whose austerity reproached their own laxity; they resented her disappointment at Soeur Monique's having been transferred to Lucon, and they, too, left her to the only persons whose presence she had ever seemed to relish, namely, her maid Veronique, and Veronique's mother, her old nurse Perrine, wife of a farmer about two miles off.
The dinner was very simple soup, roast lamb, green peas and salad but there was abundance of dessert ... two or three raised stands of delicious fruit and cakes. "Tomorrow, if you like, you may go and see the hot houses where these fruits are grown," said M. Vulfran. Perrine thanked him and said she would like to. She had commenced by helping herself discreetly to some cherries.
"They did not share your sorrow," said Perrine gravely, "but if you share theirs now they will be touched." "You don't know how ungrateful the workingman is." "Ungrateful! For what? The money they receive? They consider that they have a right to the money they earn. It is theirs. Would they show ingratitude if an interest was taken in them, if a little friendly help was given them?
The next morning, at the same hour as on the previous day, Monsieur Paindavoine entered the workshops, guided by the manager. Perrine wanted to go and meet him, but she could not at this moment as she was busy transmitting orders from the chief machinist to the men who were working for him masons, carpenters, smiths, mechanics.
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When she caught sight of Perrine she stared in amazement, but her look of astonishment was quickly followed by her best smile, the smile of a real friend. "Good day, Monsieur Vulfran! Good day, Mademoiselle Aurelie!" she called out. As soon as the carriage had passed she told her neighbors how she had procured the fine position for the young girl who had been their boarder.
"And you have waited so long, and you had so many proofs of my affection." "But was it the affection of a grandfather? I did not dare think so," said Perrine. "When I began to suspect that you were my son's child, I then quickly got positive proofs, and I gave you every chance to tell me that you were.
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