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On this he made her take the whole bag; and went home on wings. Jacintha's revelation roused all that was noble and forgiving in him. His understanding and his heart expanded from that hour, and his fancy spread its pinions to the sun of love. Ah! generous Youth, let who will betray thee; let who will sneer at thee; let me, though young no longer, smile on thee and joy in thee!
She heaved a deep sigh. To her surprise it was echoed by a sigh that, like her own, seemed to come from a heart full of sighs. She turned hastily round and saw Jacintha. Now Josephine had all a woman's eye for reading faces, and she was instantly struck by a certain gravity in Jacintha's gaze, and a flutter which the young woman was suppressing with tolerable but not complete success.
Jacintha smiled at this enthusiastic denial, and also because her sex is apt to smile when words are used they do not understand. "Dard is a fool," suggested Riviere, by way of general solution. He added, "And yet, do you know I wish every word he said had been true." Do you not?" These simple words seemed to touch a grander chord in Jacintha's nature.
Probably Jacintha's whole thought, if we had the means of knowing it, would have run like this "Besides, I have another reason: I could not be so comfortable myself elsewhere for, look you" Jacintha clasped her hands, and her black eyes shone out warm through the dew. Riviere's glistened too.
Unfortunately, Jacintha's plan was so difficult and so dangerous, that at first even the courageous Rose recoiled from it; but there are dangers that seem to diminish when you look them long in the face.
She came quaking, and found Josephine all alone. Josephine rose to meet her, and casting a furtive glance round the room first, threw her arms round Jacintha's neck, and embraced her with many tears. "Was ever fidelity like yours? how COULD you do it, Jacintha? and how can I ever repay it? But, no; it is too base of me to accept such a sacrifice from any woman."
Raynal grumbled something about its being a childish trick; but to please Edouard consented at last; only stipulated for a light: "or else," said he, "we shall surprise ourselves instead with a broken neck, going over ground we don't know to surprise the natives our skirmishers got nicked that way now and then in Egypt." "Yes, colonel, I will go first with Jacintha's candle."
Jacintha went into Camille's room. Rose, who had looked as grave as a judge while Jacintha was present, bubbled into laughter. She even repeated Jacintha's words aloud, and chuckled over them. "You know she always takes the colonel out with her now ha, ha, ha!" "Rose!" sighed a distant voice.
"If you hoped that," replied Rose in the same language, "you do not love your poor sister who so loves you." While the Italian was going on, Jacintha's dark eyes glanced suspiciously on each speaker in turn. But her suspicions were all wide of the mark. "Now may I go and tell mamma?" asked Rose. "No, mademoiselle, you shall not," said Jacintha. "Madame Raynal, do take my side, and forbid her."
"Make a good sentinel this one," said Raynal "an outlying picket for instance, on rough ground, in front of the enemy's riflemen." "Ha! ha! colonel! Let us see where this staircase leads. I have an idea it will prove a short cut." "Where to?" "To the saloon, or somewhere, or else to some of Jacintha's haunts. Serve her right for going to sleep at the mouth of her den." "Forward then no, halt!
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