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"The little feather head!" laughed madame out of her thought, oblivious of what had gone before, "but jolie and bright" "Zat so bright on, it ees no feddar-head, Felicie; you mistake. That was the rusty, dull" "Rusty! Dull! That so brilliant bird of a child! what mean you, Leon?" "Child? Who say child?" dazedly.
He recalled word for word his conversation with Félicie in the bedroom an hour before the tragedy. He asked her if she had not for a time been Chevalier's mistress. He had asked her this, not because he wanted to know, for he had very little doubt of it, but in order to show that he knew it. And she had replied indignantly: "Chevalier? He? Good gracious no! You wouldn't have had me look at him!"
The good "Sels poignans d'Angleterre," of which Felicie always acknowledged the unrivalled potency, did their business effectually. Back went the head, with an exclamation of "That's enough! Oh, oh! too much! too much, Cecilia!" "Are you better, my dear?" inquired Cecilia; "but indeed you must not give way to low spirits; indeed, you must not: so now to change the conversation, Louisa "
I don't want that dress," said Polly as she ran into her room after dinner, to Mrs. Whitney's French maid, "I'm going to wear my brown cashmere." "Oh, Mademoiselle!" remonstrated Felicie, adjusting the ruffle in the neck of the white nun's veiling over her arm. "Oh, no, Polly! I wouldn't," began Mrs. Pepper, coming in, "the white one is better for to-night."
Phronsie thought not, and thereupon she impeded the preparations by running up to kiss her mother every few moments, until such time as Felicie carried her off to induct her into a white muslin gown.
Madame Nanteuil begged him to stay. "Don't go; Félicie won't be long now. She will be pleased to find you here. You will have supper with her." Madame Nanteuil dozed off again in her chair.
We followed him down the stairs, and as we did so, Felicie, who had been waiting in a reception room, appeared before the portieres, her earnest eyes fixed on his kindly face. "Dr. Bryant," she appealed, "is he is he, really so badly?" The Doctor, who had apparently known her all her life, reached down and took one of her hands, patting it with his own in a fatherly way.
He was happy, less on account of his prodigious success than at seeing Félicie. He dreamed, in his infatuation, that she had come for his sake, that she loved him, that she was returning to him. She feared him, and, as she was timid, she flattered him. "I congratulate you, Chevalier. You were simply astounding. Your exit is a marvel. You can take my word for it. I am not the only one to say so.
When his wife came down again after dressing, she always found him sitting in an easy-chair looking blankly at Marguerite and Felicie, quite undisturbed by the rattle of their bobbins. When the newspaper was brought in, he read it slowly like a retired merchant at a loss how to kill the time.
Placing his hands under the armpits, he dragged Chevalier with the minutest precautions into the room at the side. Leaving him there, he hurried through the house in quest of Félicie, calling to her. He found her in the bedroom, with her head buried under the bed-clothes of the unmade bed, crying: "Mamma! Mamma!" and repeating prayers. "Don't stay here, Félicie." She went downstairs with him.
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