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"You may sit down, mademoiselle, while I make the calculation," said Madame Bathurst. "It is too great an honour for a Chatenoeuf to sit in your presence," replied I, quietly, remaining on my feet. Madame Bathurst made no reply, but calculating the sum of money due to me on a sheet of note paper, handed it to me and begged me to see if it was correct.
I found Mrs Bradshaw crying bitterly, and she threw herself into my arms. "Oh, Mademoiselle Chatenoeuf! the disgrace! the ruin! I shall never get over it," exclaimed she. "I see no disgrace or ruin, Mrs Bradshaw. Adele has told me that a gentleman had proposed marriage to her, and asked my advice." "Indeed!" exclaimed Mrs Bradshaw. "Yes."
"Well, Mademoiselle Valerie de Chatenoeuf," began Monsieur, as soon as the gentlemen had left us, "is it because you have found out that you have got a handsome brother, that you are determined to drive all other handsome young men au desespoir? or is it that you wish to break the heart especially of this pauvre Monsieur de Chavannes, that you have treated us all with an air si hautaine, si hautaine, that if you had been the Queen of France, it could not have been colder?"
After a little more reflection, I put away the papers, wrote a letter to Mr Selwyn, the solicitor, requesting that he would call upon me the following morning, and then went down to Lady M . "I suppose that we shall not have much of the pleasure of your company, Miss de Chatenoeuf," said her ladyship, "now that you have such a novel occupation?"
He rose immediately from the table as I entered, and advanced a step or two to meet me, with a graceful inclination, and a few well-chosen words, to the intent that he had called in order to invite Monsieur de Chatenoeuf to go out and take a promenade a cheval with him, in order to see the parks and the beauty of London.
Come, Mademoiselle de Chatenoeuf, let us go into the next room. It is cooler, and we shall be more quiet; take my arm: perhaps we shall meet the girls." I accepted her ladyship's invitation, and we went into the next room, and took a seat upon a sofa in a recess.
"Well, Valerie, I suppose I must believe that earnest face, and that honest little laugh of yours." "You may just as well do so, indeed," I replied; "for no one was ever in love with me, I assure you. And I do not think," I added, with a touch of the old pride, "that a de Chatenoeuf is likely to give away a heart that is not desired." "It is all very strange," he added.
Before luncheon was finished, Monsieur Gironac made his entree, and it was finally arranged that he and Madame should join us at Kew on the following evening; and, before we set off, Caroline expressed a hope to the Count de Chavannes that he would call upon his friend, Monsieur de Chatenoeuf, while he was staying at the Judge's, explaining that it was impossible for Mr Selwyn or the Judge to wait on him for some days, until the courts had done sitting, when she assured him that they would do so without fail.
"Have you forgotten me, Mademoiselle de Chatenoeuf?" said Lady M , extending her hand. "No, my lady, I am glad to see you looking so well. I hope your daughters are also quite well?" "Thank you; they look very well in the evening, but rather pale in the morning. It is a terrible thing a London season, very trying to the constitution, but what can we do?
Very often, after we had been received into her house, I would hear remonstrance on his part relative to the expense of keeping us, and the reply of my grandmother, which would be, "Eh bien, Monsieur Chatenoeuf, c'est mon argent que je depense." I must describe Monsieur Chatenoeuf.
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