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"Is there any hereditary lunacy in the family?" said Bianchon, addressing Larabit. The doctors departed, leaving a hospital attendant, instructed by them, to watch Madame Hulot. "A whole life of virtue! " was the only sentence the sufferer had spoken since the attack. Lisbeth never left Adeline's bedside; she sat up all night, and was much admired by the two younger women.
I'm not in the least alarmed, and I advise you not to be, Adeline. When did you see the paper first?" "When I came down to breakfast," said Adeline, quietly. "And I suppose you didn't eat any breakfast?" Adeline's silence made confession. "What I think is, we'd better all have lunch," said Suzette, and she went and touched the bell at the chimney. "You'll stay with us, won't you, Mr. Wade?
It was a painful moment; Sue patiently adjusted the cushion to her sister's shoulders, while Adeline's tongue ran helplessly on. "You were so headstrong and stubborn, I thought you would kill me. You were just like a rock, and I could beat myself to pieces against you, and you wouldn't move." "I was wrong," said the proud girl, meekly.
"She says the boat wasn't as bad as all that, and they were in no real danger, and that I did a very silly, idiotic, foolhardy thing. She doesn't understand I was trying to save her life. But I was!" "I know," nodded Loveday. "I don't think somehow, though, that Adeline's the kind of girl whom you could ever make understand. Why do you lavish all this love on her, Di? She's not worth it."
All the eight years faded away and I was again back in the old garden down at Aunt Adeline's cottage saying good-by, folded up in his arms. That's the way my memory put the scene to me, but the word "folded" made me remember that blue muslin dress again.
The mother, a dame who boasted her descent from princes, bore the matter more sternly than the sire; clamoured for revenge, which was odd, for she is as religious as a Dominican, and revenge is not Christian in a woman, though it is knightly in a man! Well, my Lord, we had one boy, our only child; he was Adeline's solace in my absence, his pretty ways were worth the world to her!
Thus the Fischer family had relapsed into the precarious mediocrity from which Baron Hulot had raised it. The three brothers Fischer, who had been ruined by the abdication at Fontainebleau, in despair joined the irregular troops in 1815. The eldest, Lisbeth's father, was killed. Adeline's father, sentenced to death by court-martial, fled to Germany, and died at Treves in 1820.
Adéline was extremely startled at hearing her rich lover thus addressed, and the carnation of her glowing cheeks faded at once to lily paleness, whilst Eugène's features flushed as quickly to deepest crimson. He stammered out his willingness to attend madame immediately, and hastily kissing Adéline's hand, followed the unwelcome intruder to another room.
When it came to 'At first, I had to superintend every blasting with gelatine, the initiated were amused at the expression of Adeline's countenance, and the suppressed start of frightful conviction that quivered on her eyelids and the corners of her mouth, though kept in check by good breeding, and then smoothed out into a resolute complacency, which convinced her sister that having inadvertently exalted the individual into the category of the distinguished, she meant to abide staunchly by her first impression.
"You speak kindly," returned the Knight; "but you know not all our cause of grief. Adeline's father, a proud sieur, died, they said of a broken heart, but old men die of many another disease than that!
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