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A rather loud but well-bred exclamation of Madame de Grandmaison roused Amelie from her day-dream. "Not going to the Intendant's ball at the Palace, my Lady de Tilly! neither you nor Mademoiselle de Repentigny, whom we are so sorry not to have seen to-day? Why, it is to be the most magnificent affair ever got up in New France.
Where do you get that shape?" "You are very kind, madame. Well, you know that Camusot's way of examining Lucien de Rubempre drove the young man to despair, and he hanged himself in prison." "Oh, what will become of Madame de Serizy?" cried the Marquise, affecting ignorance, that she might hear the whole story once more. "Alas! they say she is quite mad," said Amelie.
Queen Amelie, with her snowy curls and benevolent face, was two paces in advance of the others. Behind her were her daughter and daughter-in-law, the Queen of the Belgians and the widowed Duchesse d'Orleans, who appeared in public for the first time since her husband's death a year before.
When they reached the last one, Amelie laid her hand on the jailer's shoulder. She thought she heard a chant. Listening attentively, she became aware that it was a voice repeating verses. But the voice was not Morgan's; it was unknown to her.
"But you shall not be dowerless, Heloise!" burst out Amelie. "You shall enter the convent with as rich a dowry as ever accompanied an Ursuline." "No, Amelie; if they will not accept me for myself, I will imitate my aunt, the admirable queteuse, who, being, like me, a dowerless postulante, begged from house to house throughout the city for the means to open to her the door of the monastery.
Did you see oh, why may I not yet utter his dear name? did you see Pierre?" "Yes, Amelie. Pierre came home unexpectedly while I was weeping over the dead corpse of his father. Poor Pierre! my own sorrows were naught to his silent grief! It was more terrible than the wildest outburst of passion I ever saw!" "And what did he say? Oh, aunt, tell me all! Do not spare me one word, however bitter!
When Amelie returned, she said that every one was out at the Demi-Lune to watch the troups going to Meaux, and that the boys in the neighborhood were already swimming the Marne to climb the hill to the battlefield of Saturday. I had no curiosity to see one scene or the other.
The Queen Amélie was tall, thin, and very fair, not pretty, but infinitely more regal than Adelaide, Queen of England, at that time. The Royal Family used to walk about in the streets of Paris without any attendants. Sir Sydney Smith was still in Paris trying to renew the order of the Knights Templars.
De Pean imagined that he had found a way to revenge himself on Le Gardeur and Amelie each for thwarting him in a scheme of love or fortune.
Knowing the stubborn prejudices of caste in Germany, and above all in Eastern Prussia and Silesia, I should have been compelled to accept "Otto," whose sister was in service, as himself the servant of "B. V. H.," but for the tenderly respectful letter of "Amelie de ," declining the marriage offer for her sister.
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