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He no longer cared much about his work. What was the use of making a reputation or earning large fees when one had nothing to spend them for? All his thoughts were fixed upon the wife and child he had lost. He was reminded of Henriette in a thousand ways, and each way brought him a separate pang of grief.
Evelyn; and in talking to Henriette and me, he expressed great regret that his wife had not been included, and he paid my niece compliments upon her grace and beauty which I could but think very fulsome and showing want of judgment in addressing a child. And then, seeing me vexed, he hoped I was not jealous; at which I could hardly command my anger, and rose in a huff and left him.
The reader may very likely recollect that my father's native place had been Parma, and that one of his sisters had married a Caudagna. "It would be a curious coincidence," I thought, "if that dressmaker should be my aunt, and my valet my cousin!" but I did not say it aloud. Henriette asked me if I had any objection to the first dressmaker dining at our table.
In tragic glory Faith's clear credo rang out: "I am the Resurrection and the Life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live!" Their lovely heads dropped in the basket as the knitting women clicked their needles and cried "Two!" Henriette, with a physical retch at the sight, fell back half-fainting on Maurice. Roughly the soldiers yanked them asunder.
I shall never forget that detestable trial, those awful days in the Divorce Court, when the lawyers fought and wrangled over my darling sister, like dogs over a bone, tearing and snarling at each other, while the judge sat above like a solemn old owl, never moving or making a sign. "Henriette positively refused to appear in the case, although she was pressed and entreated by her legal advisers.
Go, you wretches! Or else or else " He seized a chair and whirled it over his head. Henriette walked quickly across the room, took her lover by the arm, dragged him from the wall, to which he appeared fixed, and led him toward the door, saying: "Do come, my friend you see that the man is mad. Do come!"
Hadria smiled over her silken arabesques. "Oh, nobody ever objects to things that only do a little harm." There was a moment of silence. Henriette thought that Hadria must indeed have changed very much during the last years.
Suspended from the other baby's neck were a bag of gold and this locket " The Countess gasped. She put a hand to her heart and seemed about to faint before recovering strength to examine the locket that Henriette handed to her. It was a miniature that the Prefect's wife recognized as her own!
The truffle salad, the ice, the dessert, everything was swallowed without being at all appreciated amidst the rising anger of the quarrel; and the chambertin and sparkling moselle were imbibed as if they had merely been water. In vain did Henriette smile, while Sandoz good-naturedly tried to calm them by making allowances for human weakness.
I see the folly and the inconvenience of that now. I have consulted hoary experience. I have sat reverently at the feet of old nurses. I have talked with mothers in the spirit of a disciple, and I have learnt, oh, so much!" "Mothers are most anxious about the moral training of their little ones," said Henriette, in some bewilderment. "Of course, but they don't worry about it so early.
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