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But the wild-looking charioteer only leant forward over his flying steeds and shouted; and the air, as it went singing past, bore away the sound of Alphonse's lamentations. And now before us, in all its marvellous splendour and dazzling loveliness, shone out the Temple of the Sun the peculiar pride of the Zu-Vendi, to whom it was what Solomon's, or rather Herod's, Temple was to the Jews.
Later they even borrowed each other's matches without fear and without reproach, until one day Monsieur Alphonse's parents took him away, and the desolated soi-disant Madame Alphonse, in a cheerful burst of confidence, gave Helen her private opinion of monsieur, and from her seventeen years' experience warned the American infant of twenty against possible similar complications.
Madame Virginie rose with a little shriek: "Alphonse! Oh, my God! Monsieur Alphonse is ill." He slipped off his chair; his shoulders went up and his head fell on one side. He remained sitting on the floor, with his back against the chair. There was a movement among those nearest; the doctor sprang over and knelt beside him. When he looked in Alphonse's face he started a little.
Madame came from New York, without doubt? such was one of his questions, as he stood before them in answer to Howard's summons, rubbing his hands. And Honora, with a little thrill, acknowledged the accuracy of his guess. There was no dish of Alphonse's they did not taste. And Howard smilingly paid the bills.
Just then I heard a familiar voice informing me that 'Monsieur must now couch himself, and looking up perceived Alphonse's enormous black mustachios curling away in the distance. 'So you are here? I said. 'Mais oui, Monsieur; the war is now finished, my military instincts are satisfied, and I return to nurse Monsieur. Poor Alphonse! I hope he will always think of me as kindly as I think of him.
I replied: I came hither, took my lodgings at an inn. My Lord seeks me last night. "I begin in the tone you may suppose. Pardieu! he is clever, milord! He shows me a letter from the Prince Von , Alphonse's recall, my own banishment. He places before me, but with admirable suavity, the option of beggary and ruin, or an honourable claim on Alphonso's gratitude.
It was a wonderful sight to see the little man fixed there, having apparently realized that to move would be to run the risk of sudden death, while his black tormentor towered over him, and wrapped him round with the quick flashes of the axe. For a minute or more this went on, till suddenly I saw the moving brightness travel down the side of Alphonse's face, and then outwards and stop.
For the minute the colonel seemed overwhelmed with grief at this awful and sudden termination of poor Captain Alphonse's life, and we would all sooner have seen him die unconsciously if not quietly, in his bed; but such are the ways of Providence, and we cannot control them!
But every time I tried to remember the exact colour of his eyes they pierced into my own eyes so that they seemed to be lighting me all up inside. The next Sunday was Easter Sunday. Adèle had gone to mass in M. Alphonse's cart. I remained alone, with one of the ploughmen, to look after the farm.
Madame Virginie rose with a little shriek: "Alphonse! Oh, my God! Monsieur Alphonse is ill." He slipped off his chair; his shoulders went up and his head fell on one side. He remained sitting on the floor, with his back against the chair. There was a movement among those nearest; the doctor sprang over and knelt beside him. When he looked in Alphonse's face he started a little.
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