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"Madame Aubertin and her sister," said he, "are so lovely they make me ill to look at them: the deepest blue eyes you ever saw, both of them; high foreheads; teeth like ivory mixed with pearl; such aristocratic feet and hands; and their arms oh!" and by way of general summary the young surgeon kissed the tips of his fingers, and was silent; language succumbed under the theme.
Camille felt his utter desolation. He was nothing to any of them. He resolved to go at once, and charge Aubertin with his last adieus to the family. It was a wise and manly resolve. He stopped Aubertin in the middle of his walk, and said in a faint voice of the deepest dejection, "Doctor, the time is come that I must once more thank you for all your goodness to me, and bid you all farewell."
She only passed them, as it were, under her own nostrils; then held them to Josephine, who was now observed to be trembling all over. Rose contrived to make it appear that this was mere sympathy on Josephine's part. "Don't be silly, girls," cried the baroness, cheerfully; "there is nobody killed that we care about." Dr. Aubertin read the rest to himself.
Alone among the translators, he had visited every spot alluded to in the poem, and his geographical and other studies had enabled him to elucidate many passages that had baffled his predecessors. Then, too, he had the assistance of Aubertin, Da Cunha and other able Portuguese scholars and Camoens enthusiasts.
A few tears for a weak, loving soul, and they would all be happy and forget her." One day the baroness, finding herself alone with Rose and Dr. Aubertin, asked the latter what he thought of Josephine's state. "Oh, she was better: had slept last night without her usual narcotic."
"No partridge?" cried the savant, in utter amazement. "Not to-day, dear friend; it is not a feast day to-day." "Ah! no; what was I thinking of?" "But you are not to be deprived," put in Josephine, anxiously. "We will not deny ourselves the pleasure of seeing you eat some." "What!" remonstrated Aubertin, "am I not one of you?" The baroness had attended to every word of this.
Aubertin; she sat quietly down; but at the first opportunity made Josephine one of those imperceptible signals which women, and above all, sisters, have reduced to so subtle a system. This done, she went carelessly out: and Josephine in due course followed her, and found her at the door. "What is it?" said Josephine, earnestly. "Have you courage?" was Rose's reply.
After waiting a long time for the doctor to declare himself, they turned desperate, and began to chatter all manner of trifles. This had a good effect: it roused Aubertin from his reverie, and presently he gave them the following piece of information: "I told you the other day that a nephew of mine was just dead; a nephew I had not seen for many years.
Stern and indignant as the baroness was, yet these words pierced her heart. She turned with a piteous, half apologetic air to Edouard and Aubertin. "Gentlemen," said she, "she has been foolish, not guilty. Heaven pardons the best of us. Surely a mother may forgive her child." And with this nature conquered utterly; and she held out her arms, wide, wide, as is a mother's heart.
Josephine cast a look of wonder and anguish on Camille, but she said nothing. She rang the bell, and, on Jacintha coming up, despatched her to Dr. Aubertin for the patient's medicine. "Tell the doctor," said she, "Colonel Dujardin has let fall the glass." While Jacintha was gone, she scolded Camille gently. "How could you be so unkind to the poor doctor who loves you so?
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