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She was not made to be deserted for meaner women. Come, mademoiselle, affront me, and me alone, and you shall find me more patient. Oh! who would have thought Beaurepaire would receive me thus?" "It is your own fault. You never sent her a line for all these years." "Why, how could I?" "Well, sir, the information you did not supply others did.
The demoiselles De Beaurepaire wore a tender look of interest and pity when they caught sight of Dard, and on the old woman courtesying to them they courtesied to her and Dard. The next moment they were close to him, one a little to his right, the other to his left, and two pair of sapphire eyes with the mild lustre of sympathy playing down incessantly upon him. How was he? How had he slept?
So swift and majestic, Josephine de Beaurepaire came from her chair with one gesture of her body between her mother and the notary, who was advancing with arms folded in a brutal, menacing way not the Josephine we have seen her, the calm languid beauty, but the demoiselle de Beaurepaire her great heart on fire her blood up not her own only, but all the blood of all the De Beaurepaires pale as ashes with great wrath, her purple eyes on fire, and her whole panther-like body full of spring.
"Turn him out of the house? what a phrase! where has this man lived?" "A man!" snarled Perrin, "whom none ever yet insulted without repenting it, and repenting in vain. You are under obligations to me, and you think to turn me out! You are at my mercy, and you think I will let you turn me to your door! In less than a mouth I will stand here, and say to you, Beaurepaire is mine. Begone from it!"
"There it is!" she exclaimed. "Lisette Beaurepaire, 911 Bernard Street, Bloomsbury I knew it was Bloomsbury. That's where she lived when I engaged her, anyhow but then her sick mother mayn't live there! The man who met her at Hull, who said he was her brother, didn't say where the mother lived, except that it was in London." "We must go to Bernard Street, anyway, at once," said Fullaway.
'I'll have no go-between, says he, 'to impoverish both self and soil. He is also a bit of a misanthrope, and has made me one. I have a very poor opinion of my fellow-creatures, very." "Well, but," said Rose, "if he is all that, he will not sympathize with us, who have so mismanaged Beaurepaire. Will he not despise us?" Edouard was a little staggered, but Aubertin came to his aid.
"Jean Raynal, domiciled by right, and lodging in fact at the Chateau of Beaurepaire, acting by the pursuit and diligence of Master Perrin, notary; I, Guillaume Le Gras, bailiff, give notice to Josephine Aglae St. Croix de Beaurepaire, commonly called the Baroness de Beaurepaire, having no known place of abode" "Oh!"
With a delicacy for which one would hardly have given him credit, he never came near Beaurepaire till all this was settled; but he brought the document from Paris that made Josephine the widow Dujardin, and her boy the heir of Beaurepaire; and the moment she was really Madame Dujardin he avoided her no longer; and he became a comfort to her instead of a terror.
"This is the first I have ever heard of her," said Camille, gayly. "This is odd, for we have heard all about it." "Are you jesting?" "No." "If I understand you right, you imply that I have broken faith with Josephine?" "Certainly." "Then you lie, Mademoiselle Rose de Beaurepaire." "Insolent!" "No. It is you who have insulted your sister as well as me.
"These Beaurepaire aristocrats," said he, with his hard peasant good-sense, "are neither the one thing nor the other; they cannot keep up nobility, they have not the means; they will not come down off their perch, they have not the sense. No, for as small as they are, they must look and talk as big as ever.
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