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Wherefore then should you not take me for your guide, and make your way more secretly than would be possible with a peasant escort to one of your Huguenot towns on the coast, whence you could escape with the child to England? 'My belle-mere has re-married! She has children! I would not bring the daughter of Ribaumont as a suppliant to be scorned! said Eustacie, pouting.
Wondering how soon she remarried, I roved gloomily among these arcades of bourgeois beads, these fadeless flowers, these monstrous ever-blacks, relieved to find a touch of humour, as in a colossal wreath ostentatiously inscribed "A ma belle-mere." Do they hold family councils in the chapel, I thought, and lament the growing scepticism of their grandchildren?
"All this is very fine, belle-mere; and yet I should hardly have thought that coarse-featured, uncouth limb of the law, who seldom moves without upsetting a chair, never laughs but the panes rattle in the window, I should hardly have thought him the precise person to gratify your pride, or answer the family ideal of a gentleman and a St. John."
"If, fair belle-mere, thou thinkest it so illustrious a deed to frighten us out of our mortal senses, and narrowly to 'scape sending us across the river like a bevy of balls from a bombard, there is no disputing of tastes. Rise up, Master Nevile, we esteem thee not less for thy boldness; ever be the host and the benefactor revered by English gentlemen and Christian youth.
"You! only you," she said, with a constrained smile; "see, my nerves are not so strong as they were." "You are disturbed, belle-mere, has he been vexing you?" "He Dalibard? No, indeed; we were only this morning discussing matters of business." "Business, that means money." "Truly," said Lucretia, "money does make the staple of life's business.
'Nor would I ask her! but it is intolerable to have been tricked into complacent consent. 'I am glad your belle-mere knows how to manage you. 'I told you she was only less unbearable than yourself. You have it from the same stock. 'The better for your future peace. I honour her.
"All this is very fine, belle-mere; and yet I should hardly have thought that coarse-featured, uncouth limb of the law, who seldom moves without upsetting a chair, never laughs but the panes rattle in the window, I should hardly have thought him the precise person to gratify your pride, or answer the family ideal of a gentleman and a St. John."
"Poor belle-mere!" said Gabriel, almost with pity; "can you live in this house and not watch all that passes, every stranger, every message, every letter? But what, then, does he wish with you?" "He has suggested my returning to England and seeing the trustees myself. His interest can obtain my passport." "And you have refused?" "I have not consented."
"Poor belle-mere!" said Gabriel, almost with pity; "can you live in this house and not watch all that passes, every stranger, every message, every letter? But what, then, does he wish with you?" "He has suggested my returning to England and seeing the trustees myself. His interest can obtain my passport." "And you have refused?" "I have not consented."
"If, fair belle-mere, thou thinkest it so illustrious a deed to frighten us out of our mortal senses, and narrowly to 'scape sending us across the river like a bevy of balls from a bombard, there is no disputing of tastes. Rise up, Master Nevile, we esteem thee not less for thy boldness; ever be the host and the benefactor revered by English gentlemen and Christian youth.
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