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A few days later, at Hortense's request, a pension of two hundred thousand francs was also accorded to the Duchess of Bourbon, who had also besought the queen to exert her influence in her behalf; and both ladies now hastened to assure Hortense of their everlasting gratitude. The fulfilment of her wish filled Hortense with delight; she was as proud of it as of a victory achieved.
"Haven't an idea, sir. Voice very pleasant, though." A pleasant voice has always a certain attraction for me. Hortense's voice was exquisite rich and low, and somewhat deeper than the voices of most women. I took up the card again. Mademoiselle de Sainte Aulaire! Where had I heard that name? "She said nothing of the nature of her business, I suppose, Collins?" "Nothing at all, sir.
At the door we were awaiting M. Radisson's return when the royal company came out. I turned suddenly and met Hortense's eyes blazing with a hauteur that forbade recognition. Beside her in lover-like pose lolled that milliners' dummy whom we had seen humbled in the morning.
Grandfather and Fergus looked astonished, and Fergus scratched his head. "Well," said Grandfather, "let's look at the highboy in Hortense's room. There's no telling what we'll find there." They went to Hortense's room and again Fergus pulled open the drawers without difficulty. Boxes and boxes of raspberries lay on top of Hortense's things and again there were thirteen cookies!
They were a young married couple from Paris, and had much to relate concerning the parties who were now arrayed against each other in France, and who made the future of the country so uncertain. In return for Hortense's so eloquent description of the past, they now told her of a bon mot of the present that was going the rounds of Parisian society.
We went together to Hortense's grave in the morning, and prayed awhile; I plucked one little sprig of early clover that had struggled into bloom above her, and carried it away with me as the last parting souvenir of my deeply lamented friend.
My daughter Hortense had a chance of marrying; the match depended entirely on you; I believed you felt some sentiments of generosity; I thought you would do justice to a woman who has never had a thought in her heart for any man but her husband, that you would have understood how necessary it is for her not to receive a man who may compromise her, and that for the honor of the family with which you are allied you would have been eager to promote Hortense's settlement with Monsieur le Conseiller Lebas.
Three persons gave a little life to the scene: Lisbeth, Celestine, and Wenceslas. Hortense's affection had developed the artist's natural liveliness as a Pole, the somewhat swaggering vivacity and noisy high spirits that characterize these Frenchmen of the North.
Madame de Beaumont and her son were so hopeful now of Hortense's complete recovery that they ventured to leave home for a week or ten days to attend to some family business that had been delayed on account of her serious illness, but it was with many a parting injunction, regarding the care and attention that should be unceasingly bestowed upon her darling during her enforced absence, that the solicitous mother left me in charge.
Now that Hortense's future was also assured now that she knew that her grandchildren would, at least, not be compelled to wander about the world as exiled beggars now Josephine withdrew her hands from her heart, and suffered it to bleed to death. On the 29th of May, 1814, the Empress Josephine died, of an illness which had apparently lasted but two days.
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