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Updated: June 20, 2025
"I suppose he would have to be a good Catholic?" "Of that I am not so sure. I do not think she would object to a good Protestant, if he would allow the children to be brought up in her faith." "The lady is brave. She takes time by the forelock." "It is the wise way, Monsieur." "Well, whoever he may be, I am sure you do not envy the future mari, dot or no dot. Your opinion of Innocentina "
His look, travelling from me to the Boy, and from the Boy to Innocentina and meek grey Souris, was so eloquent of contempt passing words, that I should have wanted to knock the sprawling flannelled figure out of the basket chair, if I had not wanted still more to yell with laughter.
The donkey, too, with its pack, and Innocentina with her toadstool hat, must have added for the aëronaut the last touch of shame to our environment.
I found that it was nearly eight, and bounded out of bed, performing my toilet with maimed rites, since baths were not comme il faut at Orsières. "The kid will be asleep still, I'll bet," I said to myself; but looking out of the window at that moment, I saw him in conversation with Joseph, Innocentina, and apparently half the inhabitants of the village.
Poor Joseph, facing exile from Innocentina and keeping his countenance politely, while I densely discoursed of "blows"! Being a muleteer "farmed out" by a master, he was at the mercy of Fate, and temporarily I represented Fate. He could not journey on southwards, whither his heart was wandering, unless I bade him go.
There was a rough balcony at the back, built over a sheer precipice, and far beneath, the Rhone Valley spread itself for our eyes. We sat resting, with glasses of rich yellow milk in our hands, when a voice under the road-shelter in front roused us from reverie. It was the Contessa greeting Joseph and Innocentina, who were reposing on a bench in the delicious shade.
We returned to the door at the end of the long corridor, where we had entered the hotel ten or fifteen minutes earlier, and found Joseph, Innocentina, and the animals still sheltering against the house wall. The porter had already retailed the bad news, and the faithful muleteer had of his own accord volunteered to play the part which the Boy and I had assigned him.
Not until now had I realised how beautiful was Innocentina, how engaging the two little plush-coated donkeys. I loved all three. "Eh bien, Innocentina!" I gaily cried. "How are you? How is your young Monsieur?" "He was well when I saw him last," returned Innocentina. "He must be very far away by this time." "Very far away?" I echoed her words blankly. "Yes, Monsieur.
Never had those loathsome inventions of an evil mind, my hold-alls, so closely resembled self-respecting members of the luggage fraternity as they did when the Boy and Innocentina had finished with them.
His anger, though a hot flame while it burned, never endured long. "Did Monsieur leave here by rail?" I enquired of Innocentina. She shrugged her shoulders. "That I cannot tell." "Do you mean you can't, or won't?" "I know nothing, Monsieur, except that I have been paid well, and told that I may go home as soon as I like, and by what route I like, having delivered the letter to Monsieur.
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