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"No, not good-bye." I replied, "Well, no not good-bye! Write to me!" I went straight to Madame de Gabry's residence. "Madame is at Rome with Monsieur. Did not Monsieur know it?" "Why, yes," I replied. "Madame wrote to me."... She had indeed written to me in regard to her leaving home; but my head must have become very much confused, so that I had forgotten all about it.
Who addresses me thus, at the very top of his voice from the height of his cabriolet? Monsieur Paul de Gabry, nephew and heir of Monsieur Honore de Gabry, peer of France in 1842, who recently died at Monaco. And it was precisely to Monsieur Paul de Gabry's house that I was going with that valise of mine, so carefully strapped by my housekeeper.
I had uttered these last words in Madame de Gabry's own vestibule; and I was about to take leave of my kind guide when she said to me, "My dear Monsieur, I cannot help you in this matter as much as I would like to do. Jeanne is an orphan and a minor. You cannot do anything for her without the authorisation of her guardian." "Ah!"
I give into Thy hands the child I stole away. Do that for her which I have not known how to do; guard for her from all her enemies; and blessed for ever be Thy name!" December 29. When I arrived at Madame de Gabry's, I found Jeanne completely transfigured. Had she also, like myself, at the very first light of dawn, called upon Him who made the sky and the dew?
Even as I was speaking Jeanne's features suddenly became pale, and seemed to shrink into lifelessness; her eyes became all dim; her lips, half open, contracted with an expression of pain. Then her head sank sideways on her shoulder; she had fainted. I lifter her in my arms, and carried her up Madame de Gabry's staircase like a little baby asleep.
Certainly she must have been afraid that I had gone mad; but, on the contrary, I was very rational indeed. "Come, my child! come!" "Where?" "To Madame de Gabry's." Then she took my arm. For some time we ran like a couple of thieves.
But although I have very little liking for him, we will go together and see him, if you wish, and ask his permission to visit Jeanne, whom he has sent to a boarding- school at Les Ternes, where she is very unhappy." We agreed at once upon a day; I kissed Madame de Gabry's hands, and we bade each other good-bye. From May 2 to May 5.
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