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"I am going to tell my sister and the Chevalier de Sainte-Foy of your mishap." "Very well," she replied, as if already she had no other desire than to follow his wishes. He gave the necessary orders, and again took his place beside the bed, awaiting the second visit of the doctor, whose arrival was simultaneous with that of the Duchess.
"I am going to tell my sister and the Chevalier de Sainte-Foy of your mishap." "Very well," she replied, as if already she had no other desire than to follow his wishes. He gave the necessary orders, and again took his place beside the bed, awaiting the second visit of the doctor, whose arrival was simultaneous with that of the Duchess.
The door of the large, right-hand box opened, and Zibeline appeared, accompanied by the Chevalier de Sainte-Foy, an elderly gallant, carefully dressed and wearing many decorations, and whose respectable tale of years could give no occasion for malicious comment on his appearance in the role of 'cavalier servente'. Having assisted his companion to remove her mantle, he profited by the instant of time she took to settle her slightly ruffled plumage before the mirror, to lay upon the railing of the box her bouquet and her lorgnette.
The hour was late, and the Duchess arose to depart. The Chevalier de Sainte-Foy, exercising his function as a sort of chamberlain, went to summon the domestics. Meanwhile Valentine spoke confidentially to Henri. "General," said she, "I wish to ask a favor of you." "I am at your orders, Mademoiselle."
As the Duchess was the only person who had been initiated into the mystery surrounding Zibeline on the subject of the building of the Orphan Asylum, it was evident that she had gone to take her place in the directing of the work. In the afternoon Henri called to inquire for the invalid, and was received by the Chevalier de Sainte-Foy.
"Yes gamblers, and fortune-hunters, in whose eyes her millions excuse all her eccentricities." "Do I understand that she has been presented to you?" asked the Duchess, surprised. "Well, yes-by the old Chevalier de Sainte-Foy, one of her so-called cousins rather distant, I fancy!
As she traversed the ranks of her admirers to go to change her costume for the last act, she found herself face to face with Zibeline, who, having quickly recovered from her emotion, was advancing on the arm of the Chevalier de Sainte-Foy. "My dear child," said the old nobleman to the actress, "I bring to you Mademoiselle de Vermont, who wishes to say to you herself "
"I dismissed my cousin De Sainte-Foy, thinking that I should have no further need of his escort to-day." "That does not matter at all," the Duchess replied. "We will stop for you on our way." "I should not like to trouble you so much, Madame. If you will allow me, I will stop at your door at whatever hour will be agreeable to you, and my carriage shall follow yours." "Very well.
"Dinorah," an opera in three acts, founded upon a Breton idyl, words by Barbiere and Carré, was first produced at the Opera Comique, Paris, April 4, 1859, under the title of "Le Pardon de Ploermel." It contains but three principal characters, and these were cast as follows: Dinorah, Mme. Cabel; Corentin, M. Sainte-Foy; and Höel, M. Faure.
"Yes gamblers, and fortune-hunters, in whose eyes her millions excuse all her eccentricities." "Do I understand that she has been presented to you?" asked the Duchess, surprised. "Well, yes-by the old Chevalier de Sainte-Foy, one of her so-called cousins rather distant, I fancy!
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