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Updated: May 21, 2025
Frahender agreed to accompany Esperance. It was decided that Marguerite should go to look after them. The faithful soul had practically brought up the child; her zeal and devotion were unfailing. But M. Darbois raised the objection, "You should have a man with you." The door bell rang, then they heard a voice, "In the salon? Don't bother to announce me, I'll go up!"
"See," said Esperance, "that is the image of my life. At this moment I am calm, happy, and my art is like that bright star. It brightens everything for me without troubling me.... I do not love Count Styvens. Oh!" she went on in answer to a movement from Genevieve, "I like him as a friend, but I do not love him.
In spite of her protestations, Esperance was installed at the piano, and Esperance resolved to put all her best into her playing with the hope of being able to transport her audience into the highest realms of the art that can express great aspiration blended with the pathos of suffering.
They always closed with this most appropriate expression, "And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety." It has fallen into disuse long ago, but about break of early day the idea took a very compelling shape in my mind. We put out from Bonne Espérance just as night was falling, and there was no moon to aid us.
At sight of him, Esperance jumped from the carriage before it stopped. "What a little creature of extremes!" mused the professor. When she threw her arms about him to thank him, he loosed her hands quickly. "Come, come, we haven't time to talk of that. We must sit down at once. Marguerite is scolding because the dinner is going to be spoiled."
"Mademoiselle," said the host, "permit me to present to you the Vicomte de Monte-Cristo." Esperance bowed low. "I think I have never had the pleasure of meeting you before, Vicomte," said Carmen. "Oh! Esperance is a workingman!" cried Goutran. "He disdains our worldly pleasures." Esperance protested with a gesture, but evidently his mind was elsewhere.
Stained glass windows admitted an uncertain light. Esperance threw open the sash and the daylight streamed in, and with it the delicious breeze of spring. Esperance turned to the wall, on which hung a fine picture of Monte-Cristo. Next this portrait hung one of his mother. The young man spoke aloud. "Father!" he said, "mother! listen to me, judge me and counsel me.
She stood in a most graceful attitude, her parted coral lips exhibiting teeth as white and glittering as pearls. A subtile magnetism seemed to exhale from her that was not without its influence upon the two youths. Besides, her words did not betoken that ignorance alluded to by Espérance or that depravity the Viscount had spoken of.
Forgetting the lack of courtesy he had shown those who had preceded her, he advanced towards Madame Darbois and, raising his black velvet cap, "Do you wish to register for the entrance examinations?" he said to Esperance. She indicated her mother with an impatient movement of her little head. "Yes," said Madame Darbois, "but I come after these other people. I will wait my turn."
Espérance and the young husband at once became as fast friends as ever, and the dark cloud that had separated them in the past was completely forgotten. The Count of Monte-Cristo and Mercédès continued to lead a tranquil and charming existence in the palatial mansion on the Rue du Helder.
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