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Dubourg was determined I should have one youngster at least about my hand who understood business. But I see his drift, and he shall find that I do so when he looks at the balance-sheet. Owen, let Clement's salary be paid up to next quarter-day, and let him ship himself back to Bourdeaux in his father's ship, which is clearing out yonder."
Mr. and Mrs. Finch; Mr. Nugent Dubourg; Oscar, and myself." "I wish there were five hundred of you, instead of five?" she burst out. "Why?" "Because you would see me pick out Oscar from all the rest, the instant the bandage was off my eyes!" Still holding to her own fatal conviction that the image in her mind of Oscar was the right one!
I exclaimed, "are you mad enough to suppose that Lucilla's sight can be restored, after a blindness of one-and-twenty years?" He suddenly held up his hand, in sign to me to be silent. He sees Lucilla THE first impression which poor Miss Finch produced on Nugent Dubourg, was precisely the same as the first impression which she had produced on me. "Good Heavens!" he cried. "The Dresden Madonna!
She tried, at my invitation, to play herself; choosing the familiar compositions which she knew by ear. No! The abominable Dubourg, having got the uppermost place in her mind, kept it. She tried, and tried, and tried and could do nothing. His voice was still in her ears the only music which could possess itself of her attention that night. I took her place, and began to play again.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Dubourg," I said and turned to the door. She heard me cross the room, and called to me to stop. I paused. There was a glass on the wall opposite to me. On the authority of the glass, I beg to mention that I paused in my most becoming manner. Grace tempered with dignity: dignity tempered with grace. "Madame Pratolungo!" "Miss Finch?"
"Dubourg writes to me that he is satisfied with you, Frank." "I am happy, sir" "But I have less reason to be so" he added, sitting down at his bureau. "I am sorry, sir" "Sorry and happy, Frank, are words that, on most occasions, signify little or nothing Here is your last letter." He took it out from a number of others tied up in a parcel of red tape, and curiously labelled and filed.
And Lucilla's misinterpretation now stood revealed as the natural product of her anxiety to account for her prejudice against Nugent Dubourg. Although the mischief had been done still, for the quieting of my own conscience, I made an attempt to shake her faith in the false conclusion at which she had arrived. "There is one thing I don't see yet," I said.
"And the vigorous young Republic drawing its first breath of life!" Nugent Dubourg instantly wheeled round in my direction; and set me right on my subject, just as he had set the rector right on reading Hamlet, and Mrs. Finch right on clothing babies. "Not a bit of it!" he pronounced positively. "The 'young Republic' is the ricketty child of the political family. Give him up, ma'am.
On this very account, when I find suspicion absolutely forced on me as it was now I am apt to fly into the opposite extreme. In the present case, I fixed on the person to suspect all the more readily from having been slow to suspect him in bygone days. "In some way or other," I said to myself, "Nugent Dubourg is at the bottom of this."
After these words, which were taken down by the clerk of the court, "and which I have here copied," says De Thou, Dubourg was taken on the 23d of December, in a tumbrel to the Place de Greve. As he mounted the ladder he was heard repeating several times, "Forsake me not, my God, for fear lest I forsake thee."
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