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Updated: May 10, 2025
Margaret Ribmont, for so we were called in England. By and by I found that I was dancing, I scarcely knew how or with whom, and I durst not look up the whole time, nor did my partner address a single word to me, though I knew he was near me; I was only too thankful that he did not try to address me. To my joy, when we had made our final reverences, he never came near me again all the evening.
But though we did not at all agree on the impression Madame van Hunker had made on us, we were of one mind to say nothing of it to Eustace. Another person laid her hand on Annora's arm as she was about to enter our carriage. 'Mistress Ribmont! she exclaimed; 'I knew not that you were present in this land of our exile.
I had thought that the barrier between the robe and the sword was so fixed in a French mind that I should as soon have expected Nicolas to aspire to Mademoiselle de Ribaumont's hand as Clement Darpent. 'But in her own eyes she is not Mademoiselle de Ribaumont so much as Mistress Annora Ribmont, I said; 'and thus she treated him in a manner to encourage his audacity.
As you may imagine, my grandchildren, I cried out in horror at the idea that if M. Darpent were capable of such presumption, my sister, a descendant of the Ribaumonts, could stoop for a moment to favour a mere bourgeois; but Eustace, Englishman as he was, laughed at my indignation, and said Annora was more of the Ribmont than the de Ribaumont, and that he would not be accessory either to the breaking of hearts or to letting her become rebellious, and so that he should put temptation out of her way.
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