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However this might be, it is certain that when the demoiselle had ill-treated the poodle, and insulted the priest, and quarrelled with the cook that high-priestess of the kitchen who alone, in all Normandy, could concoct those messes which the Baron loved the master of Cotenoir decided on marrying his heiress out of hand.
"How noble, how disinterested! Poor old man! He is, no doubt, a speculator something even of an Adventurer. What then? He shall have an apartment at Cotenoir, his place at the family table, his fauteuil by the hearth; and there he can do no harm." There was a strange sentiment in Diana's mind after this evening's conversation with Gustave Lenoble.
Diana murmured wonderingly. "What have you done? Nothing, less than nothing. You will not even run the hazard of offending your family of Sheldon in order to make me happy. But Fate has said, 'At the feet of that girl with the dark eyes and pale proud face shall poor Lenoble of Cotenoir put down his heart. Do you know what I said to myself when I saw you first in the little parlour yonder?
Lenoble shall give us the legends of Cotenoir." "Valentine," murmured Charlotte, "do you know that it is nearly one o'clock?" "And we must put in an appearance at church to-morrow morning. And Lenoble has to walk to Kingston to early mass. We will postpone our ghost stories to New-Year's eve. And Lenoble shall read Tennyson's New Year, to demonstrate his improvement in the English language.
Friend Francois pricked up his ears, and in his old eyes flickered a feeble light. Cotenoir and Beaubocage united in the person of his son Gustave! Lenoble of Beaubocage and Cotenoir Lenoble of Cotenoir and Beaubocage! So splendid a vision had never shone before his eyes in all the dreams that he had dreamed about the only son of whom he was so proud.
Cotenoir is a grand old place; but I would as soon spend my life at Toulon, dragging a cannon-ball at my heels, as in that dreary salon where Madame Frehlter nurses her maladies and her poodle, and where the good-humoured, easy-going old Baron snores away existence.
Yes, I've gone through it all; and just as I catch a glimpse of Canaan, the curtain drops." On this they comforted him; and sustained him with the promise of a brighter Canaan than Cotenoir. "Yes," he said in a dreamy voice, "I read about it very often. A city with foundations of jasper and chalcedony, emerald and sardonyx; gates of pearl, pavements of gold. That's what St.
This was solemnly agreed between the two fathers. Nor was Mademoiselle Frehlter to be told of the matrimonial scheme until it ripened. But after this dinner at Cotenoir the household at Beaubocage talked of little else than of the union of the two families. What grandeur, what wealth, what happiness! Gustave the lord of Cotenoir!
Thou wilt come to Normandy with thy father. He is coming for a week or two, now that his gout is better. I want to show thee Cotenoir and Beaubocage, the place where my father was born. It will seem dreary, perhaps, to thine English eyes; but to me it is very dear." "Nothing that is dear to you shall appear dreary to me," said Diana. By this time they had arrived at Omega Street.
He had no need of trade or profession. His life was laid out for him like a prim Dutch flower-garden. He was to live at Cotenoir, and look after his estate, and smoke his pipe, as Baron Frehlter had done, and be a good husband to his wife, a kind father to his children. This latter part of his duty came natural to M. Lenoble. It was not in him to be otherwise than kind to women and children.
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