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As for me, I can do with anything. If you wish I will go back to your house, sleep there in place of the servants, and keep you aware of all that goes on, of your brother's progress at least." "Quite unnecessary," broke in the doctor testily. "I am in charge of this case, and one patient at one time is all I care for. Drive back, Antoine, to Poussette's, where you will leave ma'amselle.
"My dove," said he, "you'll get us a bit of fish. Mr Rattlin loves fish." "Certainly, my love," said Mrs Purser pro tempore, looking a battery of amiabilities. "Allow me to introduce you to my sister-in-law, Ma'amselle D'Avalonge," said the purser, presenting a very well dressed young lady to me, with all the ease of a family man.
He stretched out a timid hand and touched her sleeve. "What is it, Ma'amselle?" he begged abjectly. "I would heal it with my blood!" Extravagant, impulsive, the boy was in deadly earnest, and Maren Le Moyne was conscious of it as simply as that she lived. Just as simply she acknowledged to him what she would have to none other in De Seviere, that something had fallen from a clear sky.
Then Ma'amselle wanted to hear again all about Patty's wonderful ride, the difficulties she had encountered, the nerve strain she had experienced, and the help and comfort Rosamond had been to her. "And," concluded Patty as she wound up her recital, "I don't want any one to tell Mrs. Farrington about it, because I want to tell her myself."
'Yes, he did indeed, ma'amselle, notwithstanding all I could say to the contrary; and Caterina and I and he staid there all night.
At that moment there was a flurry among the pressing men around, a sound above the many voices wishing them luck, and little Francette broke through. "Ma'amselle!" she cried, looking up into Maren's eyes with conflicting expressions on her small face, misery and solemn joy and hatred that strove to soften itself beneath a better emotion; "Ma'amselle, I would thank you! Oh, bon Dieu!
The girls were rejoiced at this invitation, but feared they could not accept it, as Mr. and Mrs. Farrington had an engagement in Paris for the festival. But after much discussion of the matter, and much pleading on the part of the young people, it was arranged that Patty and Elise should go two days before the New Year Day and spend a whole week with the old Ma'amselle in her chateau.
Germain, not far from Paris, and you can come, but often, and stay with me for the long time." Patty thanked her, but would not promise, as she had made up her mind to accept no invitations that could not include the Farringtons. But Ma'amselle Labesse did include the Farringtons, and invited the whole party to visit her in the winter. Mrs.
Dupre, tinkering at the canoe overturned on the pebbly beach, straightened and looked in the direction she indicated. He looked long with hand to eye, and presently turned quietly. "Nor'westers, I think, Ma'amselle. They come from Fort William to the Wilderness." Fort William! Back along the trail went memory with mention of the post on the distant shore of Lake Superior.
He turned away from the lamp and bent over the violin on his knees, fingering the strings nervously. Then he spoke, in a changed, shaken voice. "Ah'l tole you somet'ing, Ma'amselle Serene. You ma frien'. Don' you h'ask me dat reason of it no more. Dat's somet'ing vair' bad, bad, bad. Ah can't nevair tole dat nevair."
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