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The latter thus learned how she had been continually betrayed by Florine, and also the cause of the sewing-girl's abrupt departure. At these revelations, Adrienne felt her affection and tender pity for the poor sempstress greatly increase. By her command, the most active steps were taken to discover traces of the hunchback; but Florine's confession had a still more important result.
They would have lit upon it sooner, but that my hands trembled, and the vibratory motion of the sheet almost prevented me from reading. It was there at length last upon the list! "Why last?" No matter her "description" was there. Can I trust myself to read it? Down, burning heart, still your wild throbbings! "Lot 65. Aurore. 19. Quadroon. Likely good housekeeper, and sempstress."
"You know very well, Agricola," said the sempstress, blushing up to the eyes, "that I ought not to go out with you and your mother again." "Why not, madame? May I ask, without impropriety, the cause of this refusal?" said Agricola gayly. The poor girl smiled sadly, and replied, "Because I will not expose you to a quarrel on my account, Agricola."
"Mother Bunch?" said Florine, with surprise. "Yes, mademoiselle," answered the sempstress, with a sad smile; "it is the name every one gives me.
Frank was sure he could never love anybody as he had loved Madge, nor could he cut indifferently that other cord which bound him to her. Nobody in society expects the same paternal love for the offspring of a housemaid or a sempstress as for the child of the stockbroker's or brewer's daughter, and nobody expects the same obligations, but Frank was not a society youth, and Madge was his equal.
In the large canvases, "A Patient Life of Unrequited Toil," and "Midday Rest," we have paintings of horses, both of them designed to teach us consideration for the "friend of man." "The Sempstress" sings us Tom Hood's "Song of the Shirt."
Yet such were the humility and gentle resignation of this noble creature, that the only thing which made her feel ill-disposed towards Adrienne de Cardoville was the offer of the purse to Agricola; but then the charming way in which the young lady had atoned for her error, affected the sempstress deeply. Yet her heart was ready to break.
In acting thus, the young sempstress followed the dictates of her conscience, which told her that the real superiority did not belong to this base, hypocritical, and wicked princess, but rather to such a person as herself, the admirable and devoted friend. "Let me beg your highness to sit down," resumed Adrienne, in a mild tone, as she pointed to the vacant chair.
Alone with Adrienne, the sempstress would have felt only a momentary confusion on hearing the name of the smith; but unfortunately she fancied that the Jesuit, who already filled her with involuntary fear, had seen into her heart, and read the secrets of that fatal love, of which she was the victim.
She soon felt a growing interest, an involuntary emotion, as she read more of these private thoughts of the young sempstress.
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