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She had against Le Menil the sentiment of simple anger which malicious things cause. She reproached herself bitterly for having permitted her lover to go without a word, without a glance, wherein she could have placed her soul. While Pauline waited to undress her, Therese walked to and fro impatiently. Then she stopped suddenly.
Returning to Paris two days later, to fetch my things from the Bastille, I called at the Convent of the Presentation, and found in the parlour the Chevalier de Menil. I was astonished at his manner, no less than by what he said; it was evidently that his only desire was to break his engagement with me.
It died before having eaten too many flowers. Phanion lamented over its loss. She buried it in the lemon-grove, in a grave which she could see from her bed. And the shade of the little hare was consoled by the songs of the poets." The good Madame Marmet said that M. Le Menil pleased by his elegant and discreet manners, which young men no longer practise. She would have liked to see him.
His apartment was small, narrow, insufficient for his wife and his five daughters. He had been forced to put his workshop under the roof. He made long complaints, and consented to go only after Madame Martin had promised that she would speak to her husband. "Monsieur Le Menil," asked Miss Bell, "shall you go yachting next year?" Le Menil thought not. He did not intend to keep the Rosebud.
He persisted in trying to flatter her vanity, unable to realize that her mind was not worldly. She replied, negligently, that it might be a pleasant trip. Then he praised the mountains, the ancient cities, the bazaars, the costumes, the armor. He added: "We shall take some friends with us Princess Seniavine, General Lariviere, perhaps Vence or Le Menil."
But I have reflected. I have thought of everything. It is the only possible thing. Think of it, Therese, and do not reply at once." "It would be wrong to deceive you. I can not, I will not do what you say; and you know the reason why." A cab was passing slowly near them. She made a sign to the coachman to stop. Le Menil kept her a moment longer.
"Monsieur Le Menil, if next year a dolphin comes to swim near your boat, I pray you play to him on the flute the Delphic Hymn to Apollo. Do you like the sea, Monsieur Le Menil?" "I prefer the woods." Self-contained, simple, he talked quietly. "Oh, Monsieur Le Menil, I know you like woods where the hares dance in the moonlight." Dechartre, pale, rose and went out. The church scene was on.
Therese half turned her head and saw in the shadow Le Menil, who was bowing to her with his brusque suppleness. "Transmit, I pray you, Madame, my congratulations to your husband." He complimented her on her fine appearance. He spoke to Miss Bell a few courteous and precise words. Therese listened anxiously, her mouth half open in the painful effort to say insignificant things in reply.
Monsieur Le Menil came to me and did me one of those good turns that one never forgets. He saved me from Monsieur Garain." The General, who knew the Annual Register, and stored away all useful information, pricked up his ears. "Garain," he asked, "the minister who was in the Cabinet when the princes were exiled?" "Himself. I was excessively agreeable to him.
His "specimens" have changed, that is all: he has passed from butterflies to men, from the actual to the visionary Psyche. On the way to Menil we stopped at the village of Crevic. The Germans were there in August, but the place is untouched except for one house.
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