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To tell what I had been thinking to account for the expressions I had uttered would have placed me in a very absurd position; and yet to maintain silence might leave Ma'amselle Besancon busy with some strange thoughts. Something must be said a little deceit was absolutely necessary.
"Ah, M'sieu!" she said quickly, "do some of them, by chance, come from the west?" The tone of her deep voice broke the spell, so subtly natural was it, and McElroy found his tongue. "No, Ma'amselle," he smiled, the ease coming back to his blue eyes, "but I have found something very beautiful among them which I wish you to have. It is more beautiful than a red flower."
"My heart, Ma'amselle," he said gallantly, as he pressed the fragile thing in her palm; and in another second he had stooped and kissed her, as he had kissed many another woman, lightly, delicately, in the face of the populace, joying to the depths of his careless nature in the dare of the thing. With a cry the girl sprang back, crushing the birchbark case with its red flower into shapeless ruin.
"Bon jour, M'sieu," she said, and at sound of her voice, so deep and full of those sliding minors, McElroy felt her power sweep over him in a tumultuous flood. "Ma'amselle," he said, "Ma'amselle!" And in the next moment stopped, for the words of love were on his tongue and the wide dark eyes were looking at him wonderingly.
She lay quite still, and made no sound in that flurry of terror. "He is badly hurt," said Angélique. "Lizette, bring linen, the first your hand touches; and you, Achille, open his vest and find the wound quickly." "But it's no use, ma'amselle," whispered Wachique, lifting her eyes. "Do not be afraid, poor Achille. I will show you how myself. We cannot wait for any one to help us.
She is always singing the praises of her mistress, and she sees that I like to hear them. "Ah, ma'amselle," she said to me, "to marry a Lenoble is to marry one of the angels. I will not say that the old seigneur was not hard towards his son. Ah, yes, but it was a noble heart. And the young monsieur that one who died in Rouen, the Poor! ah, that he was kind, that he was gracious!
But the girls brought to it three healthy young appetites, that did full justice to the exquisite viands set before them. At the table, Ma'amselle announced to the girls her plans for their entertainment. It seemed that she expected her nephew that evening, to spend a few days, and as the next day would be the great festival of New Year's Day, she had planned a celebration of the event.
She was looking down the lake with the sun on her uncovered head, on the soft whiteness of the doeskin garment, and to young Dupre she had never seemed so near the divine, so far and unattainable. "Ma'amselle," he said presently, "if these newcomers speak us, heed you not what I may say. There are times in the open ways when a man must lie for the good of himself or others."
At length, Valancourt's letters were returned unopened, and then, in the first moments of passionate despair, he forgot every promise to Emily, except the solemn one, which bound him to avoid violence, and hastened to Montoni's chateau, determined to see him by whatever other means might be necessary. Montoni was denied, and Valancourt, when he afterwards enquired for Madame, and Ma'amselle St.
He is so strangely altered, said I: for now he is so haughty, and so commanding, and so sharp with my lady; and, if he meets one, he'll scarcely look at one, unless it be to frown. So much the better, says Ludovico, so much the better. And to tell you the truth, ma'amselle, I thought this was a very ill-natured speech of Ludovico: but I went on.
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