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It is very simple: he only earns fifteen or eighteen hundred francs a year; he can only hire a modest room, although he has very little regularity about him, for he does not know what his clothes cost him, my dear." "No, no; it is not the same," said Fleur-de-Marie, reflecting. "Yours, then, is a phoenix for order?"
One of the prisoners retaining mischievously under her foot a piece of coarse muslin, Fleur-de-Marie, stooping, raised her enchanting face toward this woman, and said, in her sweet voice, "I beg you to let me take this, in the name of the poor weeping woman." The prisoner withdrew her foot. The muslin was saved, as well as all the other rags, which the Goualeuse secured piece by piece.
The island approached nearer the left side of the river than the right shore, from whence Fleur-de-Marie and Mrs. Seraphin had embarked. La Louve was on the left side. Without being very steep, the hills on the island concealed, all its length, the view of one shore from the other.
Three months since, like you, I was a poor, lost, abandoned creature. One day, he, of whom I speak with tears of gratitude," Fleur-de-Marie wiped her tears "came to me; he was not afraid, debased and despised although I was, to speak to me words of consolation the first I ever heard!
"All I can say to you, my dear," answered the housekeeper, "is, that I execute the orders of your benefactors, and that you would cause them much trouble if you hesitate to follow me." "Oh! madame, do not think it," cried Fleur-de-Marie; "you are sent by them I have no question to ask I follow you blindly; only tell me if Madame George is well!" "She is perfectly so." "And M. Rudolph?"
And then, besides, the voice of blood, so often denied, mute, unknown, or disowned, sometimes makes itself heard; these bursts of passionate tenderness, which drew Fleur-de-Marie toward Rudolph, and alarmed her because in her ignorance she misconstrued their tendency, resulted from mysterious sympathies as evident, but also as inexplicable, as the resemblance of features.
It shall be reckoned to you. I was sure that you were better than you appeared to be. In recompense for your good action, I think I can promise you that your imprisonment shall be abridged by many days." And Madame Armand departed, followed by Fleur-de-Marie.
"And you were right. Go on, I pray you," said Fleur-de-Marie, conquering her sad emotion; "indeed, all errors are worthy of pity when repentance follows them." "And that is the case here, as I have remarked to your highness. After two years of this abominable life, grace touched this abandoned one. A prey to a late remorse, she has returned here.
But how did your lordship " "Dr. Griffon and myself gave her the first assistance." "The first assistance? to her? where?" "On Ravageurs' Island, where she was saved." "Saved! Fleur-de-Marie! saved?" "By a good creature, who, at the risk of her life, drew her out of the Seine. But what is the matter, madame?" "Oh! sir, I dare not believe in so much happiness.
"To-morrow she will come to see me." "The debt is immense," said the prince, "but I shall know how to pay it." "What a happy circumstance, my God! that I did not bring Fleur-de-Marie with me," said the marchioness; "this scene would have been fatal to her." "It is true, madame," said Murphy; "it is a providential chance that she is not here."
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