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'Not that I blame mun, she says, 'for I wouldn't do it myself," here Polly giggled. "What to find for breakfast she don't know, and never will until I go and help her." Polly departed, leaving her mistress cosy in bed and strangely reluctant to rise and part company with her waking thoughts. Yes; Dorothea had danced twice again with M. Raoul since her discovery of his boldness.
But soon even that sentiment, pure as it was, became chastened from all breath of earthly love, in proportion as the admiration refined itself into reverence. She has often urged me to marry, but I have no bride on this earth. I do but want to see Enguerrand happily married, and then I quit the world for the cloister." But after Enguerrand's death, Raoul resigned all idea of the convent.
While to her, his views on all that seeks to render the actual life attractive and embellished, through the accomplishments of Muse and Grace, would have seemed the narrow- minded asceticism of a bigot. But now, amid the direful calamities of the time, the beauty of both natures became visible to each. To the eyes of Isaura tenderness became predominant in the monastic self-denial of Raoul.
He had never taken him to Christine's himself and came to the conclusion that Raoul must have gone there alone while the count stayed talking in the foyer with Sorelli, who often asked him to wait until it was her time to "go on" and sometimes handed him the little gaiters in which she ran down from her dressing-room to preserve the spotlessness of her satin dancing-shoes and her flesh-colored tights.
As the top swung earthward, Raoul jumped clear of the crashing branches and landed safely in the feather-bed of snow, buried up to his neck. Nothing was to be seen of him but his head, like some new kind of fire-work sputtering bad words. Well, this was the first thing that put an edge on Vaillantcoeur's hunger to fight.
"And my advice, De Guiche," said Raoul, "is the very opposite." "What is that?" "To mount your horse and set off at once for one of your estates; on your arrival, follow the chevalier's advice, if you like; and, what is more, you can sleep there as long and as tranquilly as you please." "What! set off!" exclaimed the chevalier, feigning surprise; "why should De Guiche set off?"
He crawled a little farther on his knees, then turned right round and said: "I am going to hang by my hands from the edge of the stone and let myself drop INTO HIS HOUSE. You must do exactly the same. Do not be afraid. I will catch you in my arms." Raoul soon heard a dull sound, evidently produced by the fall of the Persian, and then dropped down. He felt himself clasped in the Persian's arms.
I have dreamed dreams concerning you, dreams of a foolish, golden-hearted girl, who would yield yield gladly all that the world may give, to be one flesh and soul with me. But I have wakened, dear, to the braver reality, that valorous woman, strong enough to conquer even her own heart that her people may be freed from their peril." "Blind! blind!" she cried. Raoul smiled down upon her.
That evening, as he attended to their homes Isaura and the other ladies at to the ambulance, he said, in answer to inquiries about his mother, "She is resigned and calm. I have promised her I will not, while she lives, bury her other son: I renounce my dreams of the monastery." Raoul did not remain many minutes at Isaura's. The Abbe accompanied him on his way home.
But, pardon me, Raoul, I am doting you are quite right, it is a hideous sight to see a person hung! At what hour do they hang them, monsieur, if you please?" "Monsieur," replied the stranger respectfully, delighted at joining conversation with two men of the sword, "it will take place about three o'clock."
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