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He is in the highest spirits, and treats me with an amount of affection and courtesy I have not been accustomed to receive at his hands. Of course I know the cause of this change; the future mistress of Cotenoir is a very different person from that wretched girl who was nothing to him but a burden and an encumbrance. But even while I despise him I cannot refuse to pity him.
I have been telling Diana how much I owed to your hospitality during my stay in Normandy," continued the Captain, with his grandest air, "I regret that I can only receive you in an apartment quite unworthy the seigneur of Cotenoir. A charming place, my dear Diana, which I should much like you to see on some future occasion. Will you take some tea, Lenoble? Diana, a cup of tea.
"And I have said it right, haven't I?" he asked of the same lady. "I think I shall love you, because you are like my papa, only older and uglier," the little one concluded, with angelic candour. The seigneur of Beaubocage dried his tears with an effort. Beaubocage Cotenoir.
The interval that had elapsed since his return had been spent by the Captain in his own bedchamber, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the folding-doors between that apartment and the parlour. He had heard just enough of the conversation to know that Gustave had been rejected Gustave, with Cotenoir and a handsome independence in the present, and the late John Haygarth's fortune in the future.
Everyone here is more kind to me than words can tell; and I have nothing left to wish for, except that you were here to be delighted, as I am sure you would be, with the freshness and the strangeness of everything. If I ever do become Madame Lenoble and even yet I cannot picture to myself that such a thing will be you must come to Cotenoir, you and Valentine.
The mother persuaded, the sister pleaded, the father dwelt dismally upon the poverty of Beaubocage, the wealth of Cotenoir. It was the story of auld Robin Gray reversed. Gustave perceived that his refusal to avail himself of this splendid destiny would be a bitter and lasting grief to these people who loved him so fondly whom he loved as fondly in return.
Your father will be disappointed. But what then? He is no doubt accustomed to disappointments. My daughters for them it is a profound affliction to be motherless, but they must support it. Cotenoir must go to wreck and ruin a little longer a few more rats behind the panelling, a few more moths in the tapestry, that is all.
Gustave says we will sweep these poor vestiges away, and begin a new life, when I come to Cotenoir; but I cannot find it in my heart to obliterate every trace of those dead feet that have come and gone in all the dusky passages of my future home.
After a dinner at Cotenoir and a dinner at Beaubocage, on both which occasions Gustave had made himself very agreeable to the ladies of the Baron's household since, indeed, it was not in his nature to be otherwise than kind and courteous to the weaker sex the mother told her son of the splendid destiny that had been shaped for him.
Ten years passed, and M. Lenoble of Cotenoir was a widower with two fair young daughters at a convent school on the outskirts of Vevinord, and a boisterous son at an academy in Rouen. Gustave had never followed any profession; the lands of Beaubocage secured him a competence, so prudently had the small estate been managed by the kindred who adored him. His marriage had given him fortune.
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