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But the ruby brooch that had not yet arrived what would that cost? She hurried to her accounts; she had let them run on for months unlooked at, but she thought she must know the principal articles of expense in dress by her actual possessions. There was a heap of little crumpled bills which, with Felicie's griffonage, Helen had thrown into her table-drawer.
Marguerite, half abashed, took Felicie's arm and looked at the young man, who blushed and caught up little Jean to cover his confusion. When all four were in the garden, Felicie and Jean ran to the other side, leaving Marguerite, who, conscious that she was alone with young de Solis, led him to the pyramid of tulips, arranged precisely in the same manner year after year by Lemulquinier.
When Marguerite, expert in love, reached an understanding of the real state of Felicie's heart, she wound up their talk by saying: "Well, dear child, let us make sure he truly loves you, and then " "Ah!" cried Felicie, laughing, "leave me to my own devices; I have a model before my eyes." "Saucy child!" exclaimed Marguerite, kissing her.
The physician, understanding what was in Félicie's mind, quickly replied: "My dear little Nanteuil, believe what I tell you. The phantoms of the dead have no more reality than the phantoms of the living." Without attending to what he was saying, she asked him if it was really because he suffered from his liver that he had a vision.
With a shrug of the shoulders he replied bluntly: "No need to worry about that. She'll get on. She is an actress heart and soul. She has it in her bones, down to her very legs." Madame Nanteuil indulged in a quiet smile. "Poor child! They are not very plump, her legs. Félicie's health is not bad, but she must not overdo it. She often has fits of giddiness, and sick headaches."
He did not particularly care to meet Madame Nanteuil; she bored him and embarrassed him, although she was extremely polite to him, even to obsequiousness. It was she who received him in the little drawing-room. She thanked him for his interest in Félicie's health, and informed him that she had been restless and unwell the night before, but was now feeling better.
The toilette superbe requires only cost a toilette distinguee demands care. There was a happiness as well as care in Felicie's genius for dress, which, ever keeping the height of fashion in view, never lost sight of nature, adapting, selecting, combining to form a perfect whole, in which art itself concealed appeared only, as she expressed it, in the sublime of simplicity.
Rose, I believe you are angry because I accepted Felicie's invitation. But I am not going to leave you alone again. I must remember you are not like Clare. You are vexed with me, now confess it." "I see you could not help it," Rose answered wearily. "And I was glad to go home. I shall go again on Saturday. You must come with me, Pauline."
Before Lady Cecilia's toilette was finished her husband was in her dressing-room; came in without knocking, a circumstance so unusual with him, that Mademoiselle Felicie's eyes opened to their utmost orbit, and, without waiting for word or look, she vanished, leaving the bracelet half clasped on her lady's arm. "Cecilia!" said the general.
Helen was just dressed, and had given her last orders to her bewildered maid, when she heard a knock at the door, and Mademoiselle Felicie's voice. She could not at this instant endure to hear her heartless exclamatory speeches; she would not admit her. Mademoiselle Felicie gave Rose a note for her young lady it was from Cecilia.
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