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Even her mother had been so offensive and so contemptuous that Jacqueline had found it impossible to stay with her. She had seen through and through the world's hypocrisy. Olivier's death had been the last blow. She seemed so utterly sorrowful that Cecile had not thought it right to refuse to let her have her boy.
He knew how proud they were, and got Mooch, without saying anything, to send him Olivier's volume of poems, which had just been published: and, without the two friends having anything to do with it, without their having even the smallest idea of what he was up to, he managed to get the Academy to award the book a prize, which came in the nick of time to help them in their difficulty.
This had been found amongst Olivier's papers; a note in that precious manuscript, which had given to the hands of his successors the keys of the grave, had discovered the mystery of its uses.
When the patrol from the Waterworks to Boesman's Kop did not return in due course on the morning of March 31, its absence seems to have caused no anxiety to Amphlett. Broadwood, groping in the Fog of War, believed that the force on his flank was Olivier's, who had driven him out of Thabanchu, and who now, as he thought, had overtaken him.
Landa murmured. Rocdiane resumed, turning toward Bertin: "Is it true that he is to marry the daughter of your friend?" "I think so," said the painter. But the question, before that man, in that place, gave to Olivier's heart a frightful shock of despair and revolt.
And Christophe could not bear Olivier's irony, which used sometimes to make him furious with exasperation: he could not bear his mania for arguing, his perpetual analysis, and the curious intellectual immorality, which was surprising in a man who set so much store by moral purity as Olivier, and arose from the very breadth of his mind, to which every kind of negation was detestable, so that he took a delight in the contemplation of ideas the opposite of his own.
Sometimes she had queer glimpses of the persons that were called Mary Olivier. There was Mrs. Olivier's only daughter, proud of her power over the sewing-machine. When she brought the pile of hemmed sheets to her mother her heart swelled with joy in her own goodness.
"Well, Count Olivier," demanded the King, "is your brag made good?" Olivier held his peace, and already was King Hugo rejoiced at heart to think his new son-in-law's head must fall. For of all the brags and boasts, it was Olivier's had angered him worst. "Answer," he stormed. "Do you dare to tell me your brag is accomplished?"
And softly, turning a little, she laid her lips on one of Olivier's eyes, where she found a bitter tear. She started, as if she had just tasted a drop of despair, and repeated several times: "Ah, poor friend poor friend poor friend!" Then after a moment of silence she added: "It is the fault of our hearts, which never have grown old. I feel that my own is full of life!"
Claude Patru, who lived in the lower story, said he had heard banging noises above his head in the night, and that he had recognised Olivier's voice amongst others. So far it was certain that the King was, himself, causing the matter to be investigated; but what was puzzling was the long delay in coming to a decision.
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