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"We were to have been married next month," sobbed Eulalie Sandoval. "Can't you come and see Jose, Professor Kennedy? There must be something you can do. We fear he is dying yes, dying." "Poor little girl!" murmured Anitra, still patting her hand affectionately, then to us, "You know, Eulalie is the sister of Manuel Sandoval, who manages the New York business of my brother." She paused.
For, if unduly prolonged, the rapture of waiting for Eulalie became a torture, and my aunt would never cease from looking at the time, and yawning, and complaining of each of her symptoms in turn. Eulalie's ring, if it sounded from the front door at the very end of the day, when she was no longer expecting it, would almost make her ill.
So, every Sunday, after Eulalie had gone, Francoise would mercilessly prophesy her coming downfall.
Do you not know, Eulalie, what it is to us cultivators of art art being the expression of truth through fiction to come into the atmosphere of one of those souls in which Truth stands out bold and beautiful in itself, and needs no idealization through fiction?
She sat quietly down again or would have done so, but that she saw Eulalie smile meaningly at her sister. Intercepting the young wife, the smile changed into affected condolence. "Nathanael will have his way, you see. If you only knew what he was as a little boy," and the Beauty shrugged her shoulders pathetically.
When he turned around again Sister Eulalie, her eyes dry now, was still standing near the bed, her head bent down. He stepped forward, quickly picked up the letters and threw them pell-mell back into the drawer. Then he closed the curtains of the bed.
The ceremony was witnessed by her father and Errington's friends, and when it was concluded they had all gone on their several ways, old Gueldmar for a "toss" on the Bay of Biscay, the yacht Eulalie, with Lorimer, Macfarlane, and Duprez on board, back to England, where these gentlemen had separated to their respective homes, while Errington, with his beautiful bride, and Britta in demure and delighted attendance on her, went straight to Copenhagen.
"I have good news to tell you," he said, gayly; "but we are not alone," he added, stopping short, as his eyes rested on the sinister face of an old woman, humbly attired, who was busily engaged in knitting, not far from the lovers. "O, don't mind poor old Mannette," said Eulalie. "The poor old creature is past hearing thunder.
She would tell him nothing either about her plans, or her husband; she did not respond to his skilful and reproachful comments upon her failure to give them assistance in a recent great function at Ste. Eulalie; nor was she moved by the tone of solemn and fatherly exhortation into which he gradually passed. He left her, fearing the worst.
"The doctor will be here soon; Mary and Eulalie are down-stairs. I have myself told Elizabeth that you are ill; she is composed, and sends her love to her dear father. Was all this right?" Mr. Harper appeared to assent. "I will sit beside you till the doctor comes, and then I will write to my husband. You would like him to come home?" He seemed slow of comprehension, troubled, or excited.
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