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This, my dear nephew, is my only daughter, Sibylle Bernac. 'Then you 'I am your mother's brother, Charles Bernac. 'You are my Uncle Bernac! I stammered at him like an idiot. 'But why did you not tell me so? I cried. 'I was not sorry to have a chance of quietly observing what his English education had done for my nephew.
Two days had passed away since the reception of the Empress Josephine, and only one remained of the time which had been allowed to my cousin Sibylle in which she might save her lover, and capture the terrible Toussac. For my own part I was not so very anxious that she should save this craven lover of hers, whose handsome face belied the poor spirit within him.
But what can this young lady require of me? Show her in, Constant! An instant later my cousin Sibylle was conducted into the room. Her face was pale and set, but her large dark eyes were filled with resolution, and she carried herself like a princess. 'Well, mademoiselle, why do you come here?
'I have already wasted too much time. We must be upon our way in five minutes. My uncle placed his hand upon my arm and led me slowly towards the gateway, through which my cousin Sibylle had already passed. 'There is one matter that I wish to speak to you about before you go. Since my time is so short you will forgive me if I introduce it without preamble.
'Come, Sibylle, said her father, 'you can assure your cousin Louis that, so far as you are concerned, any family misunderstanding is at an end. 'It is very well for us to talk in that way, father, she answered. 'It is not your picture that hangs in the hall, or your coat-of-arms that I see upon the wall.
'Lieutenant Gerard chanced to meet me, and escorted me through the camp, said my cousin. 'He has been kind enough to give me sympathy in my trouble. 'And so do I, Sibylle, I cried; 'you carried yourself like an angel, and it is a lucky man who is blessed with your love. I trust that he may be worthy of it.
When I had escorted my cousin Sibylle from the presence of the Emperor, I was surprised to find the same young hussar officer waiting outside who had commanded the guard which had brought me to the camp. 'Well, mademoiselle, what luck? he asked excitedly, clanking towards us. For answer Sibylle shook her head. 'Ah, I feared as much, for the Emperor is a terrible man.
Only La Tremoille and the Archbishop holding all the strings in their hands, upsetting all military plans, disgusting every chief, met and talked and carried on their busy intrigues, and played their Sibyl Sibylle de carrefour, says one of the historians indignantly against the Maid, who, all discouraged and downcast, fretted by caresses, sick of inactivity, dragged out the uneasy days in an uncongenial world; but Jeanne has left no record of the sensations with which she saw these days pass, eating her heart out, gazing over that rapid river, on the other side of which all the devils were unchained and every result of her brief revolution was being lost.
Sibylle never hesitated for an instant, but, with a set face and blazing eyes, she swept towards them. 'Father, said she, 'what have you done with Lucien? I saw his impassive face wince for a moment before the passionate hatred and contempt which he read in her eyes. 'We will discuss this at some future time, said he. 'I will know here and now, she cried. 'What have you done with Lucien?
Sibylle is a charming girl, and you must not allow yourself to be prejudiced against her by any ill temper which she may have shown towards me. I will confess that she had some reason to be annoyed at the turn which things had taken. But I hope to hear that you have now thought better upon this matter. 'I have never thought about it at all, and I beg that you will not discuss it, said I curtly.
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