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Meanwhile in the bedroom, into which she had pushed Muffat, the darkness was complete. Whereupon after some groping she rang furiously and asked for a lamp. It was Julien's fault too! If there had been a lamp in the drawing room the whole affair would not have happened. It was the stupid nightfall which had got the better of her heart.
Jeanne was leaning over the side of the bed, looking at the girl. "Is it not true that I found you in Julien's bed?" she asked. "Yes, madame," moaned out Rosalie through her fingers. At that the baroness burst into tears also, and the sound of her sobs mingled with the maid's. "How long had that gone on?" asked Jeanne, her eyes fixed on the maid. "Ever since he came here," stammered Rosalie.
The doctor, being sent for immediately on Julien's arrival, pronounced it a simple sprain, and declared that the preliminary treatment had been very skilfully applied, that the patient had now only to keep perfectly still. Two days later came La Guite from Reine, to inquire after M. de Buxieres's health.
Its expanse was relieved merely by three of Julien's exquisite lithographs a trois crayons, fastened to the wall without frames.
These consisted mostly of peasants of the neighborhood, who came to the chateau at his summons; but as soon as they came into Julien's presence, they discovered, with that cautious perception which is an instinct with rustic minds, that before them stood a man completely ignorant of the customs of the country, and very poorly informed on Claude de Buxieres's affairs.
When he saw the priest approaching, he moved away so as not to have to meet him and speak to him. The priest did not call again; but the following Sunday from the pulpit he hurled imprecations, curses and threats against the chateau, anathematizing the baron, and making veiled allusions, but timidly, to Julien's latest intrigue.
Jeanne could not speak, her heart was too full, but she took Julien's hand and pressed it, feeling that she must love something or some one before all this beauty; and then, leaving this confusion of forms, they came upon another bay surrounded by a wall of blood-red granite, which cast crimson reflections into the blue sea.
"But there is. Hark, dost thou not hear it now? God of mercy! thou hast heard my prayer it is his!" she exclaimed, sinking powerlessly back, at the moment that even Julien's duller ear had caught a rapid step; and in another minute the branches were hastily pushed aside, and Stanley indeed stood upon the threshold.
Reine might be said to live alone at La Thuiliere, for her father could hardly be regarded seriously as a protector. Julien's visits might have compromised her, and the young man's severe principles of rectitude forbade him to cause scandal which he could not repair.
Herr Freudenberg deliberately, and of his own free choice, was accustomed to take huge risks. When they came he accepted them, but when they were not inevitable he as sedulously avoided them. The wrecking of Julien's apartments in the Rue de Montpelier was by far the most hazardous enterprise which had been attempted since the days of the toymaker's first secret visits to Paris.
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