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Updated: June 25, 2025
Thinking thus, Juve-Vagualame, encircled by watchful policemen, descended the stairs. On the first floor he caught a glimpse of the baron and his daughter in the ante-room. De Naarboveck's bearing was dignified: Wilhelmine seemed terribly frightened. There was a scared, hunted look on her pallid face. Behind Juve-Vagualame in his handcuffs followed the pseudo-mother.
He repeated his question in the pathetic strain. 'Will you do this now, to save us all from ruin? But his eyes still threatened her. 'No; she said, looking up into his face as though watching for the personal attack which would be made upon her; 'no, I won't. 'Marie! exclaimed Madame Melmotte. She glanced round for a moment at her pseudo-mother with contempt. 'No; she said.
She and her pseudo-mother had been instructed to pack up their jewellery, and they had both obeyed the order. But she herself at this moment cared but little for any property. How ought she to behave herself? Where should she go? On whose arm could she lean for some support at this terrible time? As for love, and engagements, and marriage, that was all over.
Majestically, with a wave of her arm signifying disdainful rejection, the pseudo-mother drew her shawl of many colours about her corpulent person and sailed out of the de Naarboveck mansion. Meanwhile, up on the third floor, a puzzled, confused, battered Bobinette was recovering from the shocks and terrors of the evening. She lay back in an arm-chair trying to piece things together.
She, poor girl, bewildered among various suitors, utterly confused by the life to which she was introduced, troubled by fitful attacks of admonition from her father, who would again, fitfully, leave her unnoticed for a week at a time; with no trust in her pseudo-mother for poor Marie, had in truth been born before her father had been a married man, and had never known what was her own mother's fate, with no enjoyment in her present life, had come solely to this conclusion, that it would be well for her to be taken away somewhere by somebody.
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