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"Father Gabriel says," observed sister Claire, "that in his journeys he could almost believe that the fields sing, and the hills rejoice with music, as the Scripture says the cultivators are so hidden among the corn and the canes, and the groves and the vines, that their songs really seem to come out of the ground." "It is in the woods," added sister Benoite, "as if the very trees shouted "
"Then there will be the less trouble," thought Lionel. He called Benoite to him, then packing up Sibylla's things for Deerham Court, inquired into the state of her accounts, and found Sibylla had told him correctly. He gave Benoite a month's wages and a month's board wages, and informed her that as soon as her mistress had left the house, she would be at liberty to leave it.
The words "walking round the pool" did away with this. For the present, Jan departed. But, if Dan's organs of disclosure are for the present in abeyance, there's no reason why we should not find out what we can for ourselves. You may be very sure that Deerham would not fail to do it. The French madmizel as Mrs. Duff styled her, meaning, of course, Mademoiselle Benoite had called in at Mrs.
This she did, partly to display her own consequence, chiefly that she might have a companion home, for Mademoiselle Benoite did not relish the walk alone by moonlight to Verner's Pride. Of course young Dan was at the beck and call of Mrs. Duff's customers, that being, as mademoiselle herself might have said, his spécialité.
"I only mean," said she, striving to subdue her sobs; "I only mean that I wish sister Claire, and sister Benoite, and all of them, would not want me to be glad and revengeful." "Glad and revengeful!" repeated Father Gabriel. "That would be difficult."
The superfluous ones, those who had been engaged when Verner's Pride grew gay, Lionel found the means of discharging; paying them as he had paid Benoite. Heavy work for him, that day! the breaking up of his home, the turning forth to the world. And, as if his heart were not sufficiently heavy, he had the trouble of Sibylla. The arrangements had been three or four days in process.
Out of the drawing-rooms, out of the dining-room, had poured the guests; out of the kitchen came peeping the servants. Deborah West stood on the stair like a statue, her hands clasped; and Mademoiselle Benoite frantically inquired what anybody had been doing to her mistress. All stared in amazement. She, in that terrible state of agitation; Lionel supporting her with his white and haughty face.
Lionel did not deem it so, and asked permission ere he gave the order. Sibylla had never seen her husband quietly resolute in opposing her whims, as he had been with regard to Benoite. She scarcely knew what to make of it; but she had deemed it well to dry her tears, and withdraw her opposition. She came down dressed at the time of departure, and looked about for John Massingbird.
Accordingly, Dan started with Mademoiselle Benoite. She had been making' purchases at other places, which she had brought away with her shoes, stationery, and various things, all of which were handed over to the porter, Dan. They arrived at Verner's Pride in safety, and Dan was ordered to follow her in, and deposit his packages on the table of the apartment that was called the steward's room.
She had never tasted chocolate for breakfast in all her life, previous to this visit to Paris: now she protested she could take nothing else. Possibly she may have caught the taste for it from Mademoiselle Benoite. Her husband sat opposite to her, his chair drawn from the table, and turned to face the room.
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