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Esperance was so sensitive to the charm of her mother-in-law that it made her seem devoted to her fiancee.... The news of the engagement of Esperance and the Count Styvens was known all over Paris. Letters came to the farm of Penhouet, done up in packets.
This name is also given by Friedel to a good-sized round lump of sandstone with a deep groove near the middle. Stones used as anchors, found in the Bay of Penhouet. 1, 2, 3, stones weighing about 160 pounds each. 4 and 5, lighter stones, probably used for canoes.
A fresh scent rose from the rocks which were clothed with sea moss. Far away a dog was barking. The young people were silent, united in a mood of wonder before the depths and lights of the night. On the fifteenth of September the girls had to tear themselves away from their quiet retreat at Belle-Isle, and leave Penhouet and all else to travel with Mlle.
It is more than an hour's journey from Palais to Penhouet, but the road seemed short, on account of its variety of view. Leaving Palais, there was first of all the ropemakers rolling long strands of hemp with their fingers almost bleeding over the task. They had chosen a charming spot; shaded by a little orchard they worked and sang the ropemaker's song, with a lingering, dragging melody.
Dear Genevieve, can't you give me a little dose of the elixir of your happiness. I need it sorely just now." The girls had been walking as they talked down to the little beach at Penhouet. The sea was at low tide, and the golden sand, dried by the sun, offered them a restful couch. They stretched themselves out upon it, and Esperance soon fell asleep.
The ordinary life of society, so artificial, so devoid of real interest, this life that eats up hours and weeks and months in futilities, in nothings that come to nothing, all this became suddenly quite burdensome to me. I continuously thought of the adorable child I had seen at Penhouet, brighter than all else in that radiant place.
And the unhappy child, stifling her sobs, hid her head in the pillow. Two days later, the Countess, her son and the Baron left for Brussels. Madame Styvens had questioned Esperance very adroitly, and she left Penhouet with a pretty good idea of her tastes and preferences. It was then the end of August, and the banns were to be published for November.
At first she did not speak at all, then her eyes lost their far-away look and she gazed at Jean. "I don't know," she said in a changed voice, "I think I had some hallucination come upon me." Then she pointed towards the distant brake which was approaching Penhouet at a great pace. "What did you see?" Maurice insisted. "You have had a dizzy feeling come over you? You must be careful."
Maurice Renaud, Jean Perliez and Genevieve Hardouin were invited by the Darbois to spend their vacation at the farm of Penhouet. Their arrival at the Gare d'Orsay was a complete surprise to Esperance, who threw herself on her father's neck, sobbing with pleasure. He chided her gently, "Daughter, are you going to break your word to the Doctor?"
He asked anxiously concerning Penhouet, and expressed his desire to return there immediately. Maurice and Genevieve came running up. "How happy every one looks here," said Mme. Darbois. "Don't believe it, my dear aunt; we are standing on a volcano." "Ah! the cares of the fete weigh upon you. It always seems as if everything were going wrong at the last moment."
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