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To love Madame de Tecle was perfectly proper, and he loved her still for she was a person to be loved and desired but to elevate that love or any other as the master of his life, instead of its plaything, was one of those weaknesses interdicted by his system more than any other. In fact, he felt that he had spoken and acted like a school-boy on a holiday.
"Why?" "That question is in my exercise, to be said of a man who is 'beau, joli, distingue." "Handsome, nice, and charming," replied her mother. "Very well, mother, this gentleman, our neighbor, is altogether handsome, nice, and charming." "Silly child!" exclaimed Madame de Tecle, while the little girl rushed down the steps.
At this unexpected declaration, Madame de Tecle looked at him, breathed a slight sigh of relief, and gravely awaited what he had to say. "The General de Campvallon, Madame," continued the young man, "has manifested a father's kindness to me. He intends to resign in my favor, and has not concealed from me that the support of your uncle is indispensable to my success as a candidate.
Madame de la Roche-Jugan finally offered to send Vautrot to her, that she might herself interrogate him. Madame de Tecle, affecting an incredulity and a tranquillity she did not feel, refused and withdrew. On her returning to her daughter, she forced herself to deceive her as to the impressions she had received, but she did not succeed; for her anxious face belied her reassuring words.
He had, therefore, nothing to regret although he certainly would have preferred, from the point of view of his principles, to have displayed a somewhat less childish weakness. But what course should he now adopt? Nothing could be more simple. He would go to Madame de Tecle implore her forgiveness throw himself again at her feet, promising eternal respect, and succeed.
There was a moment's silence. Madame de Tecle, whose forehead was contracted, lowered her eyes, then raised them. "If you insist on it," she said. "I insist on nothing! If you believe my presence would do her harm " The voice of Camors was not as steady as usual.
Despite his fixed resolution of preserving universal scorn, Camors could not resist a vague feeling of respect for Madame de Tecle; but it did not entirely eradicate the impure sentiment he was disposed to dedicate to her. Fully determined to make her, if not his victim, at least his ally, he felt that this enterprise was one of unusual difficulty.
From this moment, and during the months that followed, the young wife kept up an active correspondence with her mother; and we here transcribe some of the letters, which will make us more intimately acquainted with the character of the young woman. Madame de Camors to Madame de Tecle. "October. "Am I happy? No, my dearest mother! No not happy! I have only wings and soar to heaven like a bird!
The General invited Madame de Tecle and her daughter, every year, to pass some weeks at Campvallon, rightly judging that he could not give his young wife better companions. Madame de Tecle accepted these invitations cheerfully, because it gave her an opportunity of seeing the elite of the Parisian world, from whom the whims of her uncle had always isolated her.
His political future especially would have been lost, or indefinitely postponed, for his liaison with Madame de Tecle would have been discovered some day, and would have forever alienated the friendly feelings of M. des Rameures. On this point he did not deceive himself.
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