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Then she marked with a pencil the first four columns, drawing a line through the name of each saint up to the 2d of May, the day that she left the convent. A voice outside the door called "Jeannette." Jeanne replied, "Come in, papa." And her father entered. Baron Simon-Jacques Le Perthuis des Vauds was a gentleman of the last century, eccentric and good.
It was addressed clearly enough to "Madame la baronne Le Perthuis des Vauds." She opened the next: "Come to-night as soon as he has gone out. We shall have at least one hour together. I adore you." A third: "I have passed a night of longing and anguish. I fancied you in my arms, your mouth quivering beneath mine, your eyes looking into my eyes.
Julien wanted to present his wife to the Brisevilles, the Couteliers and the Fourvilles, but they could not pay these visits yet because they had not been able to get the painter to change the coat-of-arms on the carriage; for nothing in the world would have persuaded Julien to go to the neighboring château in the old family carriage, which the baron had given up to him, until the arms of the De Lamares had been quartered on it with those of the Leperthius des Vauds.
The old family coach had been given up to his son-in-law by the baron, and nothing would have induced him to show himself at the neighboring chateaux if the coat-of-arms of the De Lamares were not quartered with those of the Le Perthuis des Vauds.
The Baron Simon-Jecques Le Perthuis des Vauds was a gentleman of the old school, eccentric and good-hearted. An enthusiastic follower of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he had a loving tenderness for all nature; for the fields, the woods, and for animals.
She untied another package. It was a new handwriting. She read: "I cannot do without your caresses. I love you so that I am almost crazy." That was all; no signature. She put back the letter without understanding its meaning. The address was certainly "Madame la Baronne Le Perthuis des Vauds." Then she opened another: "Come this evening as soon as he goes out; we shall have an hour together.
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