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Meantime at the chateau, as still befalls in emergencies and trials, the master spirit came out and took its real place. Rose was now the mistress of Beaurepaire; she set Jacintha, and Dard, and the doctor, to pack up everything of value in the house. "Do it this moment!" she cried; "once that notary gets possession of the house, it may be too late. Enough of folly and helplessness.
The feeling was rendered still more piquant by a sharp curiosity that had been growing on him for some minutes past. For why was this passage opened to-night? he had never seen it opened before. And why was Jacintha lying sentinel at the foot of the stairs? But this was not all.
How shall I surround her with myself unseen make her feel that a man's love waits upon her feet every step she takes that a man's love floats in the air round that lovely head?" Then descending to earth for a moment, "but I say, you promise not to betray me; come, secret for secret." "I will not tell a soul; on the honor of a woman," said Jacintha.
Ever since one day you all went to Frejus together, you were a changed woman. I have seen you look at him as as a wife looks at her man. I have seen HIM" "Hush, Jacintha! Do not tell me what you have seen: oh! do not remind me of joys I pray God to help me forget. He was my husband, then! oh, cruel Jacintha, to remind me of what I have been, of what I am! Ah me! ah me! ah me!"
Jacintha collapsed on the stairs, and the cradle beside her, for all the power was driven out of her body; she could hardly support her own weight, much less the cradle. She rocked herself, and moaned out, "Oh, what's this? oh, what's this?" A cold perspiration came over her whole frame. "What could this mean? What on earth had happened?"
Edouard felt as it were a portcullis of ice come down between her and him. She courtesied and glided away. He bowed and stood frozen to the spot. He felt so lonely and so bitter, he must go to Jacintha for comfort. He took advantage of the ladies being with Dard, and marched boldly into the kitchen of Beaurepaire. "Well, I never," cried Jacintha. "But, after all, why not?"
"Hush!" cried Jacintha roughly, "hold your tongue: it is only a faint. Help me loosen her: don't make any noise, whatever." They loosened her stays, and applied the usual remedies, but it was some time before she came-to. At last the color came back to her lips, then to her cheek, and the light to her eye. She smiled feebly on Jacintha and Rose, and asked if she had not been insensible.
And now that you have told me she is poor and in sorrow, and I think of her walking so calm and gentle always in black, Jacintha, and her low courtesy to me whenever we met, and her sweet smile to me though her heart must be sad, oh! my heart yearns for her. What can I do for her?
"She was my best friend. Once acquainted with the doctor, I could visit at Beaurepaire." "Parbleu!" "She had thought of a way to reconcile my wishes with this terrible etiquette that reigns here." "She thinks to more purpose than you do; that is clear." "Nothing is left now but to ask her pardon, and to consent; I am off." "No, you are not," and Jacintha laid a grasp of iron on him.
"Oh, if anybody should come?" But her eye never stirred an inch from the cradle. "No, no, no! the door is locked. Jacintha watches below; there is no dan Ah, oh, poor sister!" For, as Rose was speaking, the young mother sprang silently upon her child.
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