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Again my father was absent, but he had left this letter for me: "If you call again to-day, wait for me till four. If I am not in by four, come and dine with me to-morrow. I must see you." I waited till the hour he had named, but he did not appear. I returned to Bougival. The night before I had found Marguerite sad; that night I found her feverish and agitated.
We were going to breakfast at Bougival, and we were rowing vigorously, when La Toque, who had, that morning, the triumphant look of a man who was satisfied, and who, sitting by the steers-woman, seemed to squeeze himself rather too close to her, in our estimation, stopped the rowing by calling out: 'Stop!
He then made his escape, all the more easily because poor Ursula lingered to see that La Bougival applied the poultice properly. "The letter! the letter!" cried the old man, in a dying voice. "Obey me; take the key. I must see you with that letter in your hand." The words were said with so wild a look that La Bougival exclaimed to Ursula: "Do what he asks at once or you will kill him."
The following extracts relate chiefly to the character which is considered by many readers his finest creation, but which, as is well known, made him for a time very unpopular in Russia: BOUGIVAL, August 18, 1871.
When Goupil reached Nemours, Ursula had just been carried down from her chamber to the ground-floor in the arms of La Bougival and the doctor. A great event was about to take place. When Madame de Portenduere became really aware that the girl was dying like an ermine, though less injured in her honor than Clarissa Harlowe, she resolved to go to her and comfort her.
Minoret, you deceiver, I have you Motus, my children!" Whereupon he left them abruptly to reflect with admiration on the ways by which Providence had brought the innocent to victory. "The finger of God is in all this," cried the abbe. "Will they punish him?" asked Ursula. "Ah, mademoiselle," cried La Bougival. "I'd give the rope to hang him."
While Minoret was thinking only of destroying Ursula's life in Nemours, La Bougival never let a day go by without torturing her foster child with some allusion to the fortune she ought to have had, or without comparing her miserable lot with the prospects the doctor had promised, and of which he had often spoken to her, La Bougival.
He fell from Tiennette to La Bougival; the one said to him, "Why do you come so late, Monsieur l'abbe?" as the other had said, "Why do you leave Madame so early when she is in trouble?" The abbe found a numerous company assembled in the green and brown salon; for Dionis had stopped at Massin's on his way home to re-assure the heirs by repeating their uncle's words.
An hour later Bongrand was back in Nemours, at Ursula's house, whence he sent La Bougival to Minoret to beg his attendance. The colossus came at once. "Mademoiselle " began Bongrand, addressing Minoret as he entered the room. "Accepts?" cried Minoret, interrupting him. "No, not yet," replied Bongrand, fingering his glasses.
The old man took her on his knee and called her gayly his godmother. The abbe, deeply moved, recited the "Veni Creator" in a species of religious ecstasy. The hymn served as the evening prayer of the three Christians kneeling together for the first time. "What has happened?" asked La Bougival, amazed at the sight. "My godfather believes in God at last!" replied Ursula.
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