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In this primitive dwelling which was not, however, more rude than many of the fishermen's cottages along the coast there lived, a few years since, three persons: old Aimée Kaudren, aged seventy, who with her snow-white cap and sabots, and her keen clear-cut face, might have been seen any day in or near the cottage, cutting the gorse-bushes that grew about the rocks for firing, leading the cow home from her scanty bit of grazing, kneeling on the stone edge of the pond by the well, to wash the clothes, or within doors cooking the soup in the huge cauldron that stood on the granite hearth.
To this point Tewfick's buoyancy had brought him, and all the more hastily because of his eagerness to escape the pangs of that uncomfortable self-reproach. To Aimée, in her new clear-sightedness of misery, it was bitterly apparent that he was reconciled with her lot and careless of it.
Aimée looked at her calmly, but with some quiet scrutiny in her glance. "As nice," she put it to her, "as nice as Ralph Gowan?" She grew rose-colored then in an instant up to her ears again and over them, and she turned her face aside and plucked at the hearth-rug with nervous fingers. "Well?" suggested Aimée. "He is as handsome and as tall, and he dresses as well."
It was to madame's care that Aimée had been given when the motherless girl had grown beyond old Miriam's ministrations, and for nearly nine years in the palace madame had maintained her courteous and tactful supervision. Indeed, it was only this last year that madame had undertaken new relations with the world outside, perceiving that Aimée would not longer require her.
I said to Aimee, "When my mother sees you," and now it is "If my father saw her," with a very faint prospect of its ever coming to pass. So he let the evening hours flow on and disappear in reveries like these; winding up with a sudden determination to try the fate of his poems with a publisher, with the direct expectation of getting money for them, and an ulterior fancy that, if successful, they might work wonders with this father.
Why, I can feel the difference as I hold it, and it is as feverish as it can be." "You good, silly little thing!" said Dolly, laughing. "I am not ill at all. I have caught a cold, perhaps, but that is all." "No you have not," contradicted Aimée, with pitiful sharpness. "You have not caught cold, and you must not tell me so. You are ill, and you have been ill for weeks.
"He is nicer than Brown and the others, and I do like him a little," but a tiny shudder crept over her, and she held her listener's hand more tightly. "As nice as any one else!" echoed Aimée, indignantly. "Nicer than Brown! You ought to be in leading-strings!" with pathetic hopelessness. "That was n't your only reason, Mollie."
She did not droop her face against the pillow, but roused herself, turning toward Aimée, and talking fast and eagerly. A bright spot of color came out on either cheek, though for the rest she was pale enough.
And so he went home and wrote that," signifying with a gesture the letter Aimée held. "And everything is wrong again." It was very plain that everything was wrong again. The epistle in question was an impetuous, impassioned effusion enough. He was furious against Gowan, and bitter against everybody else.
"She seemed to me to be both paler and thinner. But you must not let me alarm you, I thought, of course, that you would know." "She has never mentioned it in her letters," Aimée said. "And she has not been home for three months, so we have not seen her." "Don't let me give you a false impression," returned Gowan, eagerly.
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