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Jacqueline received her salary on the same footing as Justine, the Parisian maid, received her wages, for, although her position was apparently one of much greater importance and consideration than Justine's, she was really at the beck and call of a girl who, while she called her "darling," gave her orders and paid her for her services.
He began to go over it all again repeating his arguments, developing new theories, trying to force into her reluctant mind his own faith in the possibility of success. Justine sat resting her chin on her clasped hands, her eyes gazing straight before her under dark tormented brows. When he paused she remained silent. "Well don't you believe me?" he broke out with sudden asperity.
As the bells clanged to "slow down" on entering the harbour, his eyes opened with a gaze of sanity and consciousness. He looked at me, then at Justine. "I have been ill?" he said. Justine's eyes were not entirely to be trusted. She turned her head away. "Yes, you have been very ill," I replied, "but you are better." He smiled feebly, adding: "At least, I am grateful that I did not die at sea."
This vexation has a corollary in the following, one which is much more serious and often without remedy, especially when its root lies among vices of another kind, and which do not concern us, for, in this work, women are invariably esteemed honest until the end. "My dear Caroline," says Adolphe one day to his wife, "are you satisfied with Justine?" "Yes, dear, quite so."
For a moment the silence between the two women rang with the flight of arrowy, wounding thoughts; then Bessy's anger flagged, she gave one of her embarrassed half-laughs, and turning back, laid a deprecating touch on her friend's arm. "I didn't mean that, Justine...but let us not talk now I can't!" Justine did not move: the reaction could not come as quickly in her case.
Amidst all the badinage, Madame Walravens still obtruded from time to time, hoarse, cross-grained speeches; her impatience being diverted only by an implacable surveillance of Desiree, who could not stir but the old woman menaced her with her staff. "La voila!" suddenly cried one of the gentlemen, "voila Justine Marie qui arrive!" This moment was for me peculiar.
And I understood that you'll do most of the washing? Yes. My old Nancy was here day before yesterday, so there's not much this week." It was in some such disconnected strain as this that Mrs. Salisbury welcomed and initiated the new maid. Justine bowed reassuringly. "I'll find everything, Madam. And do you wish me to manage and to market for awhile until you are about again?"
And it was thus that Justine was enabled to warn her own lover when she had slipped away and cabled by her mistress's orders to the young Lochinvar at Delhi: "Captain Harry Hardwicke, Royal Engineers, Delhi: Letters for you at Andrew Fraser's, St Agnes Road, St. Heliers, Jersey. Come." The Swiss woman shuddered as she boldly signed Nadine!
"Who's there?" inquired that worthy lady. It was Justine, Madame de Fondege's maid, who answered in a pert voice, "Here is a letter, madame, which has just been sent up by the concierge. It is addressed to Madame Leon. That is your name, is it not?" Marguerite staggered as if she had received a heavy blow. "My God! a letter from the Marquis de Valorsay!" she thought.
Bergenheim gave the workman a withering glance, and made a sign for him to continue. "They were already talking about discharging me from the chateau's employ; I do not know how it happened, but the thought entered my head that perhaps one of these letters would be of use to me, and I took the first one in the package; I had only time to close the panel when Mademoiselle Justine returned."
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