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Updated: June 15, 2025
I always wear a little gold chatelaine that belonged to Ambrosine Eustasie de Calincourt and is marked with her coronet and initials; it has a tiny knife among the other things hanging from it. The muddy hunter could not find one; he searched in every pocket. At last he turned to me and said: "Do you happen to have a knife by chance?" and then when he saw I was a girl he took off his hat.
I shut my eyes, and in the emotion of the moment I bent the bow on the top of the frame of Ambrosine Eustasie. Then, dragging myself from his embrace and stuttering with rage, "How dare you!" I gasped. "How dare you!" He looked sulky and offended. "You said you would marry me what is a fellow to understand?"
I have heard nothing from or of him for two years. He may be dead we cannot count on him. In short, I have decided, after due consideration and consultation with my old friend the Marquis, that you must marry Augustus Gurrage. It is my dying wish." My eyes fell from grandmamma's face and happened to light on the picture of Ambrosine Eustasie de Calincourt.
I seem to be a person listening from some gallery when they all speak around me, and that the Ambrosine who answers placidly is an automaton who moves by clockwork. Shall I ever wake again?
Indeed, her mother was Irish, and I think grandmamma still speaks French with an accent. So it was annoying for them to have had their heads chopped off and to be obliged to live in Dublin on nothing a year. The grandmother of grandmamma, Ambrosine Eustasie de Calincourt, after whom I am called, was a famous character.
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