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Updated: June 15, 2025
I placed the other caskets of Lady R in the case, and then proceeded to make up my packages ready for transportation to Madame Gironac's, for there were a great many trunks full.
"I will not affect to misunderstand you, Judge, though, upon my word, you are entirely mistaken in your conjecture." "Upon your word! entirely mistaken! I think, not I am sure, not." "You are, indeed. I have not seen him above four times, nor spoken fifty words to him." "Never mind, never mind who is he?" "An acquaintance of Monsieur Gironac's, Monsieur le Comte de Chavannes.
I was foolish enough to be, at first, a little put out at this; and, having manifested some slight embarrassment on his first entrance, which I learned afterwards, did not escape his eye, though he was far too well-bred to show it, I made the matter worse by calling my pride to my aid, incited thereto by Madame Gironac's glance and smile at my blushing confusion, and certainly in no respect contributed to the gaiety of the evening.
There was a quizzical look on Monsieur Gironac's face, and a roguish twinkle in his eye, which led me to believe that what was really a matter of surprise to me, was none to my worthy host; for the Count de Chavannes had never visited the house before, in the evening; nor, from what I had understood, was he on terms of particular intimacy with the Gironacs.
Madame Gironac, who was delighted at the idea of going to the fete, ran to her husband, and kissed him over and over again. Adele and Lionel accepted Monsieur Gironac's invitation, and thus was the affair settled in Monsieur Gironac's queer way. The day of the Horticultural fete arrived. It was a lovely morning.
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