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Updated: May 13, 2025
Tascher sat in Aunt Ruby's great arm-chair, with its calico cushions, looking over some fashion-plates in the carelessly-indolent way that very warm weather induces. She had some pieces of muslin and a pair of scissors beside her on the table, as though she had been cutting out.
While I formed these plans for the future, I little anticipated what events were in store for me, nor how soon I should be thrown among scenes and people totally different from those with which I had ever mixed before. "You mess with us, then, Burke, that's agreed," said Tascher. "They 're excellent fellows, these cuirassiers of ours, and I know you 'll like them."
"If I were you, Ruth," she said as she settled the shade over it, "I would go down to the croquet-ground, from where you can see those people, and call to them." "Oh no," said Ruth with a shiver. "Why, you see," continued Mrs. Tascher, "it doesn't look well. Miss Custer ought to know better, but she is so vain of her influence over gentlemen that she exercises it upon every occasion that offers.
Lucien had besides another special reason for giving his daughter to the Prince of the Asturias. He particularly wished to prevent that Prince marrying Mademoiselle de Tascher, the niece of Josephine, a marriage for which M. de Beauharnais, then Ambassador of France at Madrid, was working with all his might.
It doesn't appear to make any difference who the gentleman is: it would be all the same to her now if it were Hugh instead of the doctor. I believe she does care something for Bruce, and he is her lawful prey; but she knows the doctor is not in the market." Ruth threw back her head proudly. "He can be in the market," she said hoarsely. "No, no, my dear," said Mrs. Tascher, shaking her head.
Ruth ran up to Mrs. Tascher's room. Her acquaintance with that lady she counted among the best things of her life. The world had seemed larger and brighter and better since she had known her. Mrs. Tascher was a widow: she had considerable wealth, but being an invalid she was deprived of the enjoyment of it to a great extent.
She invited the rest of the company to come down and look on and see that she had fair play. Bruce, at whom she glanced appealingly, paid no heed, but put on his hat and went down town with the air of a man greatly preoccupied and oppressed with business cares. Mrs. Tascher never went out when the dew was falling, and so there was nobody but Ruth and the doctor.
"I'd rather storm the battery single-handed than do it." "He has seen worse than that already to-day," said an aide-de-camp at our side. "He has seen Lahorie's squadrons of the Dragoons of the Guard cut to pieces by the Russian horse." "The Guard! the Guard!" repeated Tascher, in accents where doubt and despair were blended.
Bruce sent in when he came to his dinner. She had some affairs that must be looked into immediately by a legal eye. "Had you not better just send him a message?" asked Mrs. Tascher. "No: I prefer to attend to it myself," she returned coldly. Bruce was therefore sent in, and Mrs. Tascher stepped out into the sitting-room.
Lucien had besides another special reason for giving his daughter to the Prince of the Asturias. He particularly wished to prevent that Prince marrying Mademoiselle de Tascher, the niece of Josephine, a marriage for which M. de Beauharnais, then Ambassador of France at Madrid, was working with all his might.
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