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He now proposed to concede to me the interest on that capital during his life, and he undertook the charge of my step-daughter Isaura, and secured to her all the rest he had to leave; such landed property as he possessed in England passing to a distant relative. "So we parted, not with hostility tears were shed on both sides. I set out for Coblentz.
"Oh, Mademoiselle," he exclaimed, "what a sure guide and what a noble inspirer to a true Englishman's ambition nature has fitted you to be, were it not " He paused abruptly. This outburst took Isaura utterly by surprise. She had been accustomed to the language of compliment till it had begun to pall, but a compliment of this kind was the first that had ever reached her ear.
Could you poll all the educated ambitious young men in England, perhaps in Europe, at least half of them, divided between a reverence for the past and a curiosity as to the future, would sigh, 'I am born a century too late or a century too soon!" Isaura listened to this answer with a profound and absorbing interest.
A few minutes afterwards a maid entered the salon with a message to Madame Savarin that Mademoiselle was so unwell that she must beg Madame to excuse her return to the salon. Later in the day Mrs. Morley called, but Isaura would not see her. Meanwhile poor Rameau was stretched on his sick-bed, and in sharp struggle between life and death.
"But how?" said Isaura, already forgetting her manuscript; and certainly Rameau did not refer to that. "How!" echoed Rameau; "how! But do you not see or at least, do you not conjecture this journal of which Savarin speaks contains my present and my future? Present independence, opening to fortune and renown. Ay, and who shall say? renown beyond that of the mere writer.
Still Isaura was unmarried, still she had refused offers of marriage from men higher placed than himself, still he divined no one whom she could prefer. And as he now leaned back in his coupe he muttered to himself, "Oh, if I could but get rid of that little demon Julie, I would devote myself so completely to winning Isaura's heart that I must succeed! but how to get rid of Julie?
The Signora, on returning home from M. Louvier's, had certainly lamented much over the mesquin appearance of her old-fashioned Italian habiliments compared with the brilliant toilette of the gay Parisiennes; and Isaura quite woman enough to sympathize with woman in such womanly vanities proposed the next day to go with the Signora to one of the principal couturieres of Paris, and adapt the Signora's costume to the fashions of the place.
He advanced, he caught her hand, and continued, in one of those voices which become so musical in summer nights under starry skies: "Isaura, there is one name which I can never utter without a reverence due to the religion which binds earth to heaven a name which to man should be the symbol of life cheered and beautified, exalted, hallowed. That name is 'wife. Will you take that name from me?"
"Engagement of marriage? No period for the ceremony fixed?" "That is not my fault. I urged it on Isaura with all earnestness before I left my father's house." "That was long after the siege had begun. Listen to me, Gustave. No persuasion of mine or my wife's, nor Mrs. Morley's, could induce Isaura to quit Paris while it was yet time.
De Mauleon now approached Isaura, who was seated next to Valerie, and after well-merited encomium on Madame S 's performance, slid into some critical comparisons between that singer and those of a former generation, which interested Isaura, and evinced to her quick perceptions that kind of love for music which has been refined by more knowledge of the art than is common to mere amateurs.
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