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She tried to fill the little man's soul with jealousy and alarms, but it was stockaded with insolent confidence. He left Dinah, when he went to Paris, with all the conviction of Medor in Angelique's fidelity.
Though custom and respect kept her silent, Angélique's frank and straightforward nature must have felt bitterly ashamed as well as angry at the way her father had tried to trick her, and she seems on the whole to have been rather glad to return to her abbey.
"She is carrying your chairs into the attic, tante-gra'mère." "My chairs gone to the attic in my lifetime? And who has claimed my dower chest and my linen?" "All your things are safely removed except this bedstead, madame," declared Angélique's mother. "They were set down more carefully than my china." "How long have I been asleep?" "Only a few hours, tante-gra'mère. It is early in the night."
Was she, too, growing feverish and ill? But Margot's outburst had worked off some of her own uncomprehended terror, and she grew calm again. Though it had not been put into so many words, she knew from both Angelique's and Joseph's manner that they anticipated but one end to her guardian's illness.
Amelie knew enough by report of the French Court to cause her to shrink instinctively, as from a repulsive insect, at the name of the mistress of Louis XV. She trembled at the thought of Angelique's infatuation, or perversity, in suffering herself to be attracted by the glitter of the vices of the Royal Intendant.
"Oh, so pale, my Lady! but her face is the loveliest I ever saw, almost," added she, with an after-thought; "but so sad! she looks like the twin sister of the blessed Madonna in the Seminary chapel, my Lady." "Was she at her devotions, Fanchon?" "I think not, my Lady: she was reading a letter which she had just received from the Intendant." Angelique's eyes were now ablaze.
Margot paused long enough to caress Tom, the eagle, who met her on the path, then sped indoors, leaving Reynard to his own devices and Angelique's not too tender mercies. But she put all her energy into the task assigned her and proudly placed a plate of her uncle's favorite dainty before him when he took his seat at table.
She tried to fill the little man's soul with jealousy and alarms, but it was stockaded with insolent confidence. He left Dinah, when he went to Paris, with all the conviction of Medor in Angelique's fidelity.
She sat up on her broad throne, against the background of pillows, and received his salute upon her hand. Afterwards he bowed over Angélique's fingers. "I hope the seven children of monsieur the colonel are well," said tante-gra'mère in her tiny scream. "Four, madame," corrected the visitor. "Thanks, they are very well."
"Thanks, Mademoiselle," said De Pean, hardly knowing whether her laugh was affirmative or negative; "but I envy Le Gardeur his precedence." Angelique's love for Le Gardeur was the only key which ever unlocked her real feelings.
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