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Oh, sometimes I thought I would not care for God or anything else! it was very bad of me, but I was like a foolish little fly caught in a spider's net before he knows it." Mary's eyes questioned her companion, with an expression of eager sympathy, somewhat blended with curiosity. "I can't make you understand me quite," said Madame de Frontignac, "unless I go back a good many years.
Monsieur de Frontignac was as much charmed with him as I was; he often told me that he was his best friend, that he was his hero, his model man; and I thought, oh, Mary, you would wonder to hear me say what I thought! I thought he was a Bayard, a Sully, a Montmorenci, everything grand and noble and good.
But this would be to encourage idleness and unmanly despair. Further, it is the language of men who speak of what they do not understand; who talk of poetry as of a matter of amusement and idle pleasure; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for poetry, as they express it, as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope-dancing, or Frontignac, or Sherry.
Scudder, and Madame de Frontignac were admitted. For it is to be observed that the latter had risen daily and hourly in Miss Prissy's esteem, since her entrance into the cottage; and she declared, that, if she only would give her a few hints, she didn't believe but that she could make that dress look just like a Paris one; and rather intimated that in such a case she might almost be ready to resign all mortal ambitions.
"No," replied Emma; "for in that case I should keep myself waiting." Captain Sinclair on his return to Fort Frontignac reported to the Colonel the successful result of the expedition, and was warmly congratulated upon it, as the Colonel had been made acquainted with the engagement between him and Mary Percival.
Scudder looked surprised, but asked no questions. When she was gone down, Mary stood a moment reflecting; Madame de Frontignac looked eager and agitated. "Remember and notice all he says, and just how he looks, Mary, so as to tell me; and be sure and say that I thank him for his kindness yesterday. We must own he appeared very well there; did he not?"
"In the next act Frontignac gets mixed up in some banking scandals, he would, like a fool, play roulette baccarat was always his strong game, disappears from Vienna, is arrested at the frontier, escapes, and is found the next morning under a brush-heap with a bullet through his head. This ends the search.
I had looked for it everywhere." "Sister Agatha would have told you to make a rosary of it," said Madame de Frontignac; "but you pray without a rosary. It is all one," she added; "there will be a prayer for every shell, though you do not count them. But come, ma chere, get your bonnet, and let us go out on the beach." That evening, before going to bed, Mrs. Scudder came into Mary's room.
"Yes, but he is a good and honorable man, and you should love him." "Love is not in our power," said Madame de Frontignac. "Not every kind of love," said Mary, "but some kinds. If you have a kind, indulgent friend who protects you and cares for you, you can be grateful to him, you can try to make him happy, and in time you may come to love him very much.
Mary never felt the cold, habitual reserve of her education so suddenly melt, never felt herself so naturally falling into language of confidence and endearment with a stranger; and as her face, so delicate and spiritual, grew bright with love, Madame de Frontignac thought she had never seen anything so beautiful, and, stretching out her hands towards her, she exclaimed, in her own language,
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