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Jeanne's bright dark eyes glanced up at Marcelline with an expression of mingled curiosity and respect. "How do you know it will come true?" she said. Marcelline's old eyes, nearly as bright and dark still as Jeanne's own, had a half-mischievous look in them as she replied, solemnly shaking her head, "I know, Mademoiselle, and that is all I can say.
And when the time comes for your wish to be granted, you will see if I am not right." "Shall I?" said Jeanne, half impressed, half rebellious. "Do the fairies tell you things, Marcelline? Not that I believe there are any fairies not now, any way." "Don't say that, Mademoiselle," said Marcelline. "In that country I have told you of no one ever said such a thing as that." "Why didn't they?
Marcelline did not speak, and when Jeanne looked up at her, she saw by the light of the fire that she was smiling. Jeanne held up her forefinger. "Naughty Marcelline," she said; "you are not to smile. You are to speak. I want you to speak very much, for it is so dull, and I have nothing to do. I want you to tell me stories, Marcelline. Do you hear, you naughty little thing?"
I don't know what I like playing at best. O Marcelline!" she exclaimed, as the old nurse just then came into the room, "O Marcelline! do tell us a story; we are tired of playing." "Does Monsieur Chéri, too, wish me tell him a story?" asked Marcelline, looking curiously at Hugh. "Yes, of course," said Hugh. "Why do you look at me that funny way, Marcelline?"
But you know what I like it for, Marcelline, and you said the other day that I hadn't half seen the tapestry castle, and I want very much to see it, Marcelline, only I'd like Jeanne to be with me; for I don't think I could tell her well about the fairy things if she hadn't been with me.
"I am getting too old to tell stories," said Marcelline, half to herself, half to Hugh, who was following his cousin more slowly. He stopped for a moment. "Too old?" he repeated. "Yes, Monsieur Chéri, too old," the nurse replied. "The thoughts do not come so quickly as they once did, and the words, too, hobble along like lamesters on crutches."
Hugh looked round; old Marcelline had left the room. "Jeanne," he said, "it is so queer to see you just the same as usual, with nothing to say about it all." "About all what?" said Jeanne, seemingly more and more puzzled.
Leonore, the unhappy prisoner's wife, has discovered his place of confinement, and, in the hope of rescuing him, disguises herself in male attire and hires herself as servant to Rocco, the head gaoler, under the name of Fidelio. In this condition she has to endure the advances of Marcelline, the daughter of Rocco, who neglects her lover Jaquino for the sake of the attractive new-comer.
Meanwhile the other two ladies in the party were roaming about the dressing-room: Mme. Simone Holbord, wife of a colonel of the Marines who had just covered himself with distinction in the Congo, and the Comtesse Marcelline de Baral. "How thrilling an actor's dressing-room is!" exclaimed Mme. Holbord, inspecting everything in the room through her glass. "Just look at these darling little brushes!
One night when Hugh was warmly tucked up in bed Marcelline came in as usual before he went to sleep to put out his light. "There's been no moonlight for a good while Marcelline, has there?" he said. "No, Monsieur, there has not," said Marcelline. "Will it be coming back soon?" asked Hugh. "Do you like it so much, my child?" said the old nurse.
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