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Updated: June 18, 2025
What a fine view there is! and then the trees, the flowers, the marble do you know the dead are better lodged than the living and " "What is the matter, sister?" said Cephyse to her companion, who had stopped short, after speaking in a slow voice. "I am giddy my temples throb," was the answer. "How do you feel?"
Thanks then, my poor, dear love," said Jacques, whose hot and shining eyes were becoming moist; "thanks once again," and he reached his cold hand to Cephyse; "if I die, I shall die happy if I live, I shall live happy also. Give me your hand, my brave Cephyse! you have acted like a good and honest creature."
"I do not reproach you. I have no right to reproach you. Let me die in peace. I ask nothing but that now," said Jacques, in a still weaker voice, as he repulsed Cephyse. Then he added, with a grievous and bitter smile, "Luckily, I have my dose. I knew what I was doing when I accepted the duel with brandy."
In a word, what with changing and being forsaken, Cephyse, in the course of one or two years, was the idol of a set of grisettes, students and clerks; and acquired such a reputation at the balls on the Hampstead Heaths of Paris, by her decision of character, original turn of mind, and unwearied ardor in all kinds of pleasures, and especially her wild, noisy gayety, that she was termed the Bacchanal Queen, and proved herself in every way worthy of this bewildering royalty.
In a few minutes, the two sisters had constructed, with the straw of their couch, the calkings necessary to intercept the air, and to render suffocation more expeditious and certain. The hunchback said to her sister, "You are the taller, Cephyse, and must look to the ceiling; I will take care of the window and door." "Be satisfied, sister; I shall have finished before you," answered Cephyse.
"And afterwards? afterwards?" "Afterwards? why, then I don't know how can I tell you! Afterwards I'll look about me." "Hear me, Cephyse," resumed Jacques, with bitter agony. "It is now that I first know how mach I love you. My heart is pressed as in a vise at the thought of leaving you and I shudder to thinly what is to become of you."
Cephyse and her sister continued with calmness the preparations for their death. Alas! how many poor young girls, like these sisters, have been, and still will be, fatally driven to seek in suicide a refuge from despair, from infamy, or from a too miserable existence!
"Better, lady. This fresh air and then the thought, that, since you are come my poor sister will no more be reduced to despair; for I will tell you all, and I am sure you will have pity on Cephyse will you not, lady?" "Rely upon me, my child," answered Adrienne, forced to dissemble her painful embarrassment; "you know I am interested in all that interests you.
"You saw him yesterday? how strange!" said Rose-Pompon, clapping her hands. "Quick! quick! come over to Philemon's, to give Cephyse news of her lover. She is so uneasy about him." "My dear child, I should like to give her good news of that worthy fellow, whom I like in spite of his follies, for who has not been guilty of follies?" added Rodin, with indulgent good-nature.
She doubted not the generosity and good heart of Agricola; but she had such doubts of herself, she was so ashamed of this passion, however pure and noble, that, even in the extremity to which Cephyse and herself were reduced wanting work, wanting bread no power on earth could have induced her to meet Agricola, in an attempt to ask him for assistance.
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