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Undine, during the ensuing weeks, returned several times to Nice with the Princess; but, to the latter's surprise, she absolutely refused to have Raymond de Chelles included in their luncheon-parties, or even apprised in advance of their expeditions. The Princess, always impatient of unnecessary dissimulation, had not attempted to keep up the feint of the interesting invalid at Cimiez.
Fleischhauer, who begged to transmit to the Marquis de Chelles an offer for his Boucher tapestries from a client prepared to pay the large sum named on condition that it was accepted before his approaching departure for America. "What does it mean?" Raymond continued, as she did not speak. "How should I know? It's a lot of money," she stammered, shaken out of her self-possession.
But this was the cause of a great wound in Madame's heart, because a wretch, jealous of this unclouded happiness, asked her, playfully, if Beaumont had ever spoken to her of his first love, Mademoiselle de Montmorency, who at that time was twenty-two years of age, as she was sixteen at the time the marriage took place in Rome the which young lady loved l'Ile Adam so much that she remained a maiden, would listen to no proposals of marriage, and was dying of a broken heart, unable to banish her perfidious lover from her remembrance and was desirous of entering the convent of Chelles.
The tone of his guest's last words made him take them up. "But is the lady you allude to more than a hypothesis? Surely you're not thinking of getting married?" Chelles raised his eye-brows ironically. "When hasn't one to think of it, in my situation? One hears of nothing else at home one knows that, like death, it has to come."
At eight o'clock in the evening her mother arrived; we played until supper; I thought we were afterwards going to play again, but Madame d'Orleans begged me to go into the cabinet with her and Mademoiselle d'Orleans; the child there fell on her knees, and begged my permission, and her mother's, to go to Chelles to perform her devotions.
I am only fifteen miles northeast of Bondy, in whose forest the naughty Queen Fredegonde, beside whose tomb, in Saint-Denis, we have often stood together, had her husband killed, and nearer still to Chelles, where the Merovingian kings once had a palace stained with the blood of many crimes, about which you read, in many awful details, in Maurice Strauss's "Tragique Histoire des Reines Brunhaut et Fredegonde," which I remember to have sent you when it first came out.
"I've carried this round with me ever since, and so many's wanted to read it, it's all torn." She smoothed out the paper and began: "'Divorce and remarriage of Mrs. Undine Spragg-de Chelles. American Marquise renounces ancient French title to wed Railroad King. Quick work untying and tying. Boy and girl romance renewed. "'Reno, November 23d. The Marquise de Chelles, of Paris, France, formerly Mrs.
"Oh, not to TELL you...simply to ask if, just for the present, you'd mind avoiding the Duchess's Thursdays ...calling on any other day, that is." "Any other day? She's not at home on any other. Do you mean she doesn't want me to call?" "Well not while the Marquise de Chelles is in Paris. She's the Duchess's favourite niece and of course they all hang together.
The Count and Countess Raymond had returned but a few weeks before from their protracted wedding journey, and were staying as they were apparently to do whenever they came to Paris with the old Marquis, Raymond's father, who had amicably proposed that little Paul Marvell should also share the hospitality of the Hotel de Chelles.
There is no doubt that in the monastery there were religious persons of both sexes. Dean Stubbs says "the mixed community was the fashion of the time" and he gives Coldingham, Kildare, and three in Normandy Chelles, Autun Brie, and Fontevrault as examples of similar foundations. In this instance the abbess was the head of all; and this accounts for Bede's calling the house a nunnery.
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