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"Before whom millions of subjects must, nevertheless, bend the knee, and who, despite of all, is a powerful and wealthy monarch," returned Josepha, angrily. "That is, if his master, the Marquis Tannucci allows it," cried the Archduchess Caroline, laughing.
Hastily approaching Josepha, and stretching her arms toward her, she said: "If Joseph has no mercy in his obdurate heart, I at least will not witness such humiliation on the part of his wife. Rise, my daughter, and take shelter under my love; I will not suffer you to be oppressed not even by my own son." She would have raised Josepha, but the poor girl waved her gently back.
"I cannot, I cannot obey your dreadful behest." "Who dares say 'I cannot, when duty is in question?" exclaimed the empress. "You are my daughter and my subject still, and I will see whether you intend to defy my authority." So saying, she rose and rang her little golden bell. "The carriage of the Archduchess Josepha," said she to the page who answered the summons.
Josepha very prudently placed the Baroness in the boudoir, and drew the curtain over the door. "You would scare her," said she to Madame Hulot. "She would let nothing out if she suspected that you were interested in the information. Leave me to catechise her. Hide there, and you will hear everything. It is a scene that is played quite as often in real life as on the stage "
But where can he get the money from? I could bet that he begs of his former mistresses Mademoiselle Jenny Cadine or Josepha." The Baroness trembled more severely than ever; every nerve quivered; she wiped away the tears that rose to her eyes and looked mournfully up to heaven. "I cannot think that a Grand Commander of the Legion of Honor will have fallen so low," said she.
"You?" interrupted the Baroness, with tears in her eyes. "Oh, what can I do for you? I can only pray " "I and Monsieur le Duc d'Herouville," the singer said, "a noble soul, a true gentleman " and Josepha related the settling and marriage of Monsieur Thoul. "And so, thanks to you, mademoiselle, the Baron has wanted nothing?" "We have done our best to that end, madame." "And where is he now?"
The Baroness, all feeling and all hope, related her visit to Josepha, expressed her sense of the misery of such women in the midst of good fortune, and mentioned Chardin the mattress-picker, the father of the Oran storekeeper, thus showing that her hopes were not groundless.
Josepha very prudently placed the Baroness in the boudoir, and drew the curtain over the door. "You would scare her," said she to Madame Hulot. "She would let nothing out if she suspected that you were interested in the information. Leave me to catechise her. Hide there, and you will hear everything. It is a scene that is played quite as often in real life as on the stage "
"Well, he has settled thirty thousand francs a year on Mademoiselle Bijou by the marriage articles. And her elder sister, they say, is going to be married to a rich butcher." "Your business looks rather hopeless, I am afraid," said Josepha to the Baroness. "Monsieur le Baron is no longer where I lodged him." Ten minutes later Madame Bijou was announced.
The emperor followed with the Princess Josepha, and now through the splendid halls, that dazzled the eye with festive magnificence, came the long train of courtiers and ladies that graced the pageant of this royal bridal. In the chapel, before the altar, stood Cardinal Megazzi, surrounded by priests and acolytes, all arrayed in the pomp and splendor attendant on a solemn Catholic ceremony.
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