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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Thine; I am thine forever!" they each said, repeating the words twice over. No promise made upon this earth was ever purer. The innocent sincerity of Eugenie had sanctified for a moment the young man's love. On the morrow the breakfast was sad. Nanon herself, in spite of the gold-embroidered robe and the Jeannette cross bestowed by Charles, had tears in her eyes.
And as God had not forgotten Jeannette, so likewise He made manifest by what follows that He had not forgotten Perrot. Well-nigh half the population of those parts being swept off by a sudden visitation of deadly pestilence, most of the survivors fled therefrom in a panic, so that the country was, to all appearance, entirely deserted.
Jeannette's reaction was quicker than thinking; "Would you go half way around the world just for that?" she asked, with a hint of alarm. "Why, yes, I would," said J.W., "that is, if you were willing." Whereupon everybody laughed but Jeannette, whose pale cheeks flamed into sudden rosiness. The minister came to her rescue.
'Non, said Jeannette, tossing her head proudly, as the door closed behind the lady, 'I wish not of Duncan; I go alone. It happened that Archie, my nephew, had gone over to the cottage of the commanding officer to decorate the parlor for the military sociable; I knew he would not return, and the evening stretched out before me in all its long loneliness. 'Stay, Jeannette, I said.
They argued the point as before, till Bill proposed that they should lie down and go to sleep, as he felt tired after his long walk. They allowed two days to pass, when Bill set off as agreed on to obtain the provisions he hoped Jeannette would have brought. She had not deceived him; there was an ample supply, and two or three more candles. Several more days passed by.
'I know it. I will not repeat all I said; but, at last, silenced, if not convinced, by the power of this great love, I started with him out into the wild night to seek Jeannette. We went through the village and round the village and round the point, where the wind met us, and the waves broke at our feet with a roar.
Bill assured Jeannette that he was not angry, and again thanked her very much, though he could not help saying that he was sorry her father would not obtain the boat for them. "Well, well, you must have patience," she answered. "Now go back to your cave as fast as you can, or you will be wet to the skin."
But the habitantes laid much to his blue eyes and yellow hair, and the picturesqueness of the red and pale green Fraser tartan. They nudged one another when Jeannette began to plait her strong black locks, and make a coronet of them on her sloping head. She was always exact and neat in her dress, and its mannishness stood her in good stead during her month's imprisonment.
The personality of the three chief occupants of this storey was admirably adapted to materialise the ghostly impressions of the house into a reality that resembled some strange fairy-tale. Jeannette Thome was very small and stout; she wore a fair Titus wig, and seemed to hug to herself the consciousness of vanished beauty.
In the midst of the quadrilles I saw the wife of my friend and that of the mathematician. Madame Alexander wore a charming dress; some flowers and white muslin were all that composed it. She wore a little cross a la Jeannette, hanging by a black velvet ribbon which set off the whiteness of her scented skin; long pears of gold decorated her ears.
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