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"There is Marcelline calling you," he said, in a matter-of-fact tone. "Run downstairs. Take a look at the beautiful stars overhead before you go. Good-bye, my dears." "Good-night, Dudu, and thank you again," said the children, as they hastened away. They found their way back to the tapestry room without difficulty.
Jeanne felt about till she got hold of the latch, which she lifted, and was going to push open the door and enter when Hugh stopped her. "Jeanne," he said, "it's quite dark. We can't possibly see the chickens. Hadn't we better wait till to-morrow, and put Nibble in the cupboard, as Marcelline said, for to-night?" "Oh no," said Jeanne. "It doesn't matter a bit that it's dark."
Helena, and all the memoirs relating to the Empire. In the evening we all gathered about his writing-table to draw and chat, while Sur Marcelline sat by knitting in bright worsteds.
"Will the moonlight nights come again soon, Marcelline? Do tell me. I'm sure you know." "Have a little patience," said the old nurse, "you shall be told. Never fear." And, a little inclined to be impatient, Hugh was nevertheless obliged to shut his eyes and go to sleep. There was no moonlight that night any way. But not many nights after there came a great surprise.
"Perhaps it is our hands that are getting to be like fairy ones," said Hugh. "But it is growing too dark to see to play any more." They were playing in the tapestry room, for Marcelline had told them they would have more space there, as it was large, and Hugh's little bed in the corner did not take up much room.
His reserve, the darling regiment, the flower of his army, was dressing for the final charge. There was Claude. Next him, Sidonie! and Étienne, and Madelaine, Henri and Marcelline, all waiting for the word the words of eight syllables! Supreme moment! Would any betray? Banish the thought! Would any fail?
All he did was to amplify the details of the act of accusation and then to put the question: "Is it proven that Maurice Brotteaux, Louise Rochemaure, Louis Longuemare, Marthe Gorcut, known as Athenaïs, Eusèbe Rocher, Pierre Guyton-Fabulet, Marcelline Descourtis, etc., etc., are guilty of forming a conspiracy, the means whereof are assassination, starvation, the making of forged assignats and false coin, the depravation of morals and public spirit; the aim and object, civil war, the abolition of the National representation, the re-establishment of Royalty?"
Why, he is a 'cochon de Barbarie! O the dear little fellow! We could not at least papa and mamma could not read what he was. And have you brought him all the way, my cousin, and do you love him very much? Marcelline, Marcelline, oh, do give us some milk for the cochon de Barbarie oh, see, Marcelline, how sweet he is!"
At the head of his bed sat the Princess Marcelline Czartoryska: she never left him, guessing his most secret wishes, nursing him like a sister of mercy with a serene countenance, which did not betray her deep sorrow. Other friends gave a helping hand or relieved her, everyone according to his power; but most of them stayed in the two adjoining rooms.
"Why," said Marcelline, smiling, "I was thinking only that perhaps Monsieur finds so many stories in the tapestry that he would no longer care for my stupid little old tales." Hugh did not answer. He was wondering to himself what Marcelline really meant; whether she knew of the wonders concealed behind the tapestry, or was only teasing him a little in the kind but queer way she sometimes did.
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