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Thus ended this affair, and Madame Gironac, when she heard how busy I had been in the two elopements, said, "Ah, Valerie, you begin by marrying other people. You will end in finding a husband for yourself." "That is quite another thing, madam," I replied.
"Barbare," replied Madame Gironac, "am I then to be forced to go to a fete! ah, cruel man, you'll break my heart; but I submit to my unhappy destiny. Yes, I will go in the remise de ver: pity me, my good friends, but you don't know that man." "I am satisfied with your obedience, madame, and now I permit you to embrace me."
Soon after her ladyship's return, Madame Gironac, who had called upon me two or three times, was announced. I went out of the room, and when I met her in the dining-parlour, she told me that she had brought some of her imitations of flowers on wax, to show them to her ladyship. I immediately went up, and asked Lady R if she would like to see them, to which proposal she assented.
"I should propose that you establish yourself as a music-mistress, and give lessons on the pianoforte and singing. By degrees, you will get a connection, and you will still be your own mistress." "And when you have nothing else to do, mademoiselle, you must make flowers in wax," said Madame Gironac. "You make them so well, that I can always sell yours when I cannot my own."
The joy of Madame Gironac can be imagined better than described, as well as the manner in which she bustled about my trousseau and my outfit for France, as it was determined that the Judge's plan should be adopted to the letter, and that we should start directly from St George's to Dover and Calais. Never, perhaps, was a marriage more rapidly organised and completed.
The jewels which she had taken abroad with her were very few, and such as she wore in common; her diamonds, and all that was of value, I knew she had sent to her banker's a day or two previous to her departure, and I thought I would wait till I had seen Mr Selwyn again before I claimed them. Madame Gironac came as requested, and I then communicated to her all that had taken place.
Caroline coloured, and said, "I like him very much from what I have seen of him, Valerie; but recollect our acquaintance has been very short." "A very proper answer, my dear Caroline, and given with due maidenly decorum but here we are; and there is Madame Gironac nodding to us from the window."
"I think you have grown almost as cold yourself, little sister, and as calculating." "To be sure I have," I made answer; "and to punish me, Monsieur Gironac swears that I shall die a sour old maid." "And what do you say?" "An old maid very likely; but not a sour one, at all events. But, hark! there is a carriage at the door let me see who it is."
"Ah, Mademoiselle Valerie," said Madame Gironac to me one day, "I had no idea when I first made your acquaintance that you were so witty. My husband and all the gentlemen say that you have plus d'esprit than any woman they ever conversed with." "When I first knew you, Annette, I was not happy, now I am happy, almost too happy, and that is the reason I am so gay."
Early the next morning, Auguste came again to see me; and as Monsieur Gironac was abroad, giving lessons on the flute and guitar, while madame either was, or pretended to be, excessively busy with her wax-flowers, we had the whole day to ourselves until luncheon time, and we profited by it so well, that before we were interrupted, we had little to learn on either side concerning the passages of our lives, and the adventures, which both we and all our families had gone through.
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