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At length the breeze reached us, and hoisting our sails as well as our strength would allow, we stood in a direction to come across the course the stranger was steering. I told Kelson, in a whisper, to assist me in keeping a watch on O'Carroll, for as we drew nearer the stranger, so did his uneasiness increase, and he was evidently still under the impression that she was the dreaded Mignonne.
And these poor emigrants to have his lawless crew come among them, it will be terrible; better rather that they had all gone to the bottom in their ill-fated ship with their drunken captain." Notwithstanding O'Carroll's opinion, I doubted whether the stranger was the Mignonne, for she was still too far off, I thought, for him to be certain on the subject.
La mignonne was not indignant now, as might have been expected; but she gazed at the speaker long and more searchingly than was her wont, with something very like pity in her kind, earnest eyes. "I suppose you would not sneer so at every thing if you could help it," she said. "I am not wise enough to do so; but I don't envy you."
You saw at a glance that she had been a mignonne blonde, strangely unlike her tall, ugly, dingy-complexioned son; unlike her daughter-in-law, too, whose large-featured brunette beauty seemed always thrown into higher relief by the white presence of little Mamsey.
That is the sacrifice that Love demands." He spoke quite quietly, with the calmness of one who knew and faced the worst. The torture in his eyes had turned to dumb endurance. "Only thus," he said "only thus can we be true to our love. We sacrifice the little for the much. Mignonne, believe me, it is worth it. You are mine, and I am yours. So be it, then. Let us be faithful."
He kissed her upturned face again and again, and his voice kept whispering: "I love you, my Josephine I love you I love you " Suddenly there came to them sounds from out of the night. "Ho, Mignonne Ma Josephine!" And Philip held Josephine still closer and whispered: "I love you!" Not until the sound of approaching steps grew near did Josephine make an effort to free herself from Philip's arms.
The two midshipmen and boys soon relapsed into their former state, while O'Carroll seemed to forget that relief was approaching, till on a sudden the idea seized him that the stranger which was now rapidly nearing us was no other than the Mignonne, though she had been last seen in an opposite direction, and there had been a dead calm ever since.
But nothing was less a mignonne than her face and her figure; and Monsieur, feeling the ridicule, complained to the King. The King prohibited very severely this familiarity. While at Trianon these Princesses took it into their heads to walk out at night and divert themselves with crackers.
La mignonne was not convinced, but she yielded. She wound her arm round Cecil's waist, as they sat and whispered, nestling close to her side "Dearest, remember this: if any thing should happen, I shall always think that some blame belongs to me, and I will never give you up never."
Molyneux and his wife stood silent till their friends were quite out of sight, then Harry turned slowly round and gazed at his mignonne. He knew that the same thought was in both their minds, for her sweet face was paler than his own. "Royston will be here in four hours," he said, "and who will tell him this? I dare not." Fanny feigned a carelessness that she was far from feeling.
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