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By bombs and shells we had driven the Germans not only from such places as Merville and Neuf Berquin, but from the mere proximity to roads or houses. They had concealed themselves as best they could in ditches and narrow tunnels made with corrugated iron or planks. The 'Huns, indeed, had been meeting with their deserts. Their life in the Lys salient must have been a nightmare.
If poetry be any index to the heart, you would have thought her one to love truly and deeply. Nevertheless, since she married as girls in France do not to please herself, but her parents, she made a mariage de convenance. Monsieur de Merville was a sober, sensible man, past middle age.
During July 1916 the Battalion was in and out of the breastworks between Fauquissart and Neuve Chapelle. When the 184th Infantry Brigade went back to rest the Battalion had billets on the outskirts of Merville, a friendly little town, since levelled in ruins; and, when reserve to the Brigade, in Laventie.
The bureau de mariage had its allurements for you as well as for our poor cousin!" The young mother said this laughingly and carelessly. "Pooh!" returned Madame de Merville, laughing also; but a slight blush broke over her natural paleness. "But a propos of the Vicomte.
Nothing short of that superstitious respect, which all men owe to the wishes of the dead, would have made him select for her that asylum; for Fate had now, in brightening his own prospects, given him an alternative in the benevolence of Madame de Merville. But Gawtrey had been so earnest on the subject, that he felt as if he had no right to hesitate.
I am not ashamed," he added, after a slight pause, "to say that I had been one of the rejected suitors, and that I still revere the memory of Eugenie de Merville. The young man, therefore, was to have entered my regiment.
Before, however, he had joined it, and while yet in the full flush of a young man's love for a woman formed to excite the strongest attachment, she she " The Frenchman's voice trembled, and he resumed with affected composure: "Madame de Merville, who had the best and kindest heart that ever beat in a human breast, learned one day that there was a poor widow in the garret of the hotel she inhabited who was dangerously ill without medicine and without food having lost her only friend and supporter in her husband some time before.
He tore it open, and found four billets de banque for 1,000 francs each, a sum equivalent in our money to about L160. "Who sent this, the the lady from whom I brought the note?" "Madame de Merville? certainly not, sir," said Madame Dufour, who, with the privilege of age, was now unscrupulously filling the water-jugs and settling the toilette-table.
"You may retire," said she at last; and taking her purse from the table, she placed it in his hands. The man took it, with a significant look. "Madame may depend on my discretion." Eugenie was alone again. Those words rang in her ear, Eugenie de Merville dependent on the discretion of her lackey!
Nothing short of that superstitious respect, which all men owe to the wishes of the dead, would have made him select for her that asylum; for Fate had now, in brightening his own prospects, given him an alternative in the benevolence of Madame de Merville. But Gawtrey had been so earnest on the subject, that he felt as if he had no right to hesitate.
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