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Updated: June 23, 2025
It is true he had a terrible reason for it. Do you know what it was converted him?" Aliette gave a sign that she did not know. "Well! he returned to Paris after a few days' absence.
When Aliette revolts from a world of gossip, which reduces all minds alike to the same level of vulgar mediocrity, Bernard, on his side, can perceive there a deterioration of moral tone which shocks his sense of honour. As a man of honour, he can hardly trust his wife to the gaieties of a society which welcomes all the world "to amuse itself in undress."
His health, for some time past disturbed by grief, was powerless against the emotions of the last terrible trial imposed on him. A malady, the exact nature of which was not determined, in a few days assumed a mortal character. Perceiving that his end was come, he caused Monseigneur de Courteheuse to be summoned he desired to die in the religion of Aliette.
Mademoiselle Aliette de Courteheuse, a studious girl, though a bold and excellent rider Mademoiselle de Courteheuse, "with her hair of that strange colour of fine ashes" has conducted her visitor to see the library: One day she took me to see the library, rich in works of the seventeenth century and in memoirs relating to that time.
But the characters themselves, the agents in those difficult, revealing situations, such a reader will recognise as old acquaintances after the first reading, feeling for them as for some gifted and attractive persons he has known in the actual world Raoul de Chalys, Henri de Lerne, Madame de Técle, Jeanne de la Roche-Ermel, Maurice de Frémeuse, many others; to whom must now be added Bernard and Aliette de Vaudricourt.
And above us, in place of the good God of our happy youth, nothing, any more! or worse than nothing a deity, barbarous and ironical, who cares nothing at all about us. The aged mother of Aliette, hitherto the guardian of his daughter, is lately dead. Bernard proposes to take the child away with him to Paris. The child's old nurse objects.
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