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On the other hand, Flamin would misunderstand his actions, and this would bring both of them into great danger. The next day Victor received his appointment as physician to the Prince of Flachsenfingen, and he was summoned to the court, together with Clotilda. He now divined what his father's intentions were in regard to him and the lovely young girl.
In the distress of the battle of Tolbiac, Clovis loudly invoked the God of Clotilda and the Christians; and victory disposed him to hear, with respectful gratitude, the eloquent Remigius, bishop of Rheims, who forcibly displayed the temporal and spiritual advantages of his conversion.
At last the general broke the silence with submissive voice: "I pray you, Clotilda, tell me what the king wrote." She folded the paper, joy beaming in her eyes. "Granted! every thing granted!" The general jumped up to embrace his wife with youthful activity, in spite of the gout. "You are a capital wife," he cried, at the same time giving her a loud, smacking kiss upon her cold, gray cheek.
The enterprise was promoted by the public or private exhortations of Clotilda. This ostentatious piety confirmed and justified the attachment of the Catholics, with whom he secretly corresponded; and their devout wishes were gradually ripened into a formidable conspiracy.
"By-the-by, did you ever see the Macganister More man that died the other day? Married the Earl's half-sister?" "Never. Of course, I know Clotilda perfectly well." "Let's see oh yes! she's Sister Nora. Oh yes, of course I know Clotilda. She's his heiress, I fancy comes into all the property no male heir. She'll go over to Rome, I suppose." "Why?" "Always do with a lot of independent property.
I observed among them Prince Augustus of England, and the charming Princess Joseph de Monaco, then preparing to go back to France for her children. I saw her at Venice for the last time. Meanwhile, it being my desire to see France again, I reached Turin with this end in view. The two aunts of Louis XVI. had been kind enough to give me letters to Clotilda, Queen of Sardinia, their niece.
Certainly a place among the world's historic girls may rightly be accorded to this fair-haired young princess of the summer-land of France, the beautiful Clotilda of Burgundy. Thomas the Nestorian had been in many lands and in the midst of many dangers, but he had never before found himself in quite so unpleasant a position as now.
With these, as with the others, our fathers find their immortality in our short-lived memories, and if among either, some one moved by deep love as Auguste was by the eyes of Clotilda has yearned for immortality with the dear one, and cursed in agony Annihilation, he falls upon the faith founded in ancient India, that only that soul lives for ever which has done so much good on earth, as to leave behind it in humanity, ineffaceable traces of its elevation.
"You are my brother, my brother!" cried Clotilda. "Don't you hear? You are my brother!" She ran up to Flamin to take the pistol from him, but reeled and fell to the ground in a swoon. Victor looked at her wildly, and thinking that she was dead, turned upon Flamin. "If you want blood," he said sternly, "take mine." "You fire first," exclaimed Flamin.
Recovering his self-possession, he concealed his real feelings by giving full play to his faculty for malicious and witty sayings. But though he succeeded in amusing the company, he displeased Clotilda; for the talk fell on the topic of women. "The thing which a girl most easily forgets," said the Lord Chamberlain, "is how she looks; that is why she is always gazing into a mirror."
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