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"How much it is like him!" said she to the count. "Indeed," exclaimed the latter, "it is strange!" "Strange?" returned Adrienne, with a smile of gentle pride; "strange, that a hero, a demi-god, an ideal of beauty, should resemble Djalma?" "How you love him!" said M. de Montbron, deeply touched, and almost dazzled by the felicity which beamed from the countenance of Adrienne.
"A sou, my good lady a sou, for the love of heaven!" said the child, continuing to follow the carriage, which was then moving slowly. "My dear count," said Adrienne, smiling, and addressing M. de Montbron, "you are, unfortunately, no novice at an elopement. Please to stretch forth your arms, take up that child with both hands, and lift her into the carriage.
Once with him, he must tell him all the abduction of the girls, the name of the convent where they are confined, and my own detention as a lunatic in the asylum of Dr. Baleinier. Truth has an accent of its own, which M. de Montbron will recognize. He is a man of much experience and judgment, and possessed of great influence.
M. de Montbron had not been able to deliver Mdlle. de Cardoville's note to Prince Djalma. Faringhea had told him that the prince had gone that morning into the country with Marshal Simon, and would not be back before evening. The letter should be given him on his arrival.
Take this ring," said Adrienne, drawing it from her finger, "and give it to him. He must go instantly are you sure that you can remember a name and address?" "Oh! yes, madame. Be satisfied on that point. Agricola only mentioned your name once, and I have not forgotten it. There is a memory of the heart." "I perceive it, my dear girl. Remember, then, the name of the Count de Montbron."
And as M. de Montbron asked, if the exile of the poor young Indian tiger was to last long, Adrienne answered: "As I shall see most of the persons, to whom you will introduce him, I shall be pleased to hear different opinions about him. If certain men speak well of him, and certain women ill, I shall have good hope of him.
Madame de Morinval, seated on the opposite side of the box, was dressed with equal taste and simplicity; Morinval, a fair and very handsome young man, of elegant appearance, was behind the two ladies. M. de Montbron was expected to arrive every moment. The reader will please to recollect that the stage-box to the right of the audience, opposite Adrienne's, had remained till then quite empty.
"M. Rodin told you that!" cried M. de Montbron, as if struck with a sudden idea. "Why, it is he who told Djalma that you were in love with some one else." "And this it was which occasioned the poor youth's dreadful despair." "It was this which occasioned my despair." "You love him, then, just as he loves you!" exclaimed M. de Montbron, transported with joy. "Love him!" said Mdlle. de Cardoville.
"Father," said Agricola, "it is the generous young lady, who offered to be my bail, and to whom I have very important matters to communicate." "Good, good," replied Dagobert; "we will talk of that presently. Well, my dear girl this ring?" "You must take it directly, M. Dagobert, to the Count de Montbron, No. 7, Place Vendome.
Completely satisfied as to Djalma, knowing that he could find these few lines, which, without informing him of the happiness that awaited him, would at least give him some idea of it, Adrienne had followed the advice of M. de Montbron, and gone to the drive in her own carriage, to show all the world that she had quite made up her mind, in spite of the perfidious reports circulated by the Princess de Saint Dizier, to keep to her resolution of living by herself in her own way.
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