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Scarce had they done so, when a wild hurrah was heard; and like a whirlwind, a vast mass of cavalry, the Cossacks of the Don and the Uhlans of the South, commingled and mixed, bear down on the guns. The struggle is for life or death; no quarter given. Ney recalls his columns, and the guns are lost. "Who shall bring the Emperor the tidings?" said Tascher, as his voice trembled with excitement.
As Tascher strolled along with me towards my quarters, I was rejoiced to discover that he had never heard of my name as being mixed up in the Chouan conspiracy; nor was he aware with how little reason he believed me to be favored by fortune. I received, however, all his congratulations without any desire to undeceive him.
But he soon changed his mind when he reflected that most of the figures were represented in naturalibus, which would appear incongruous in an apartment used for grand diplomatic receptions, and in which the Council of Ministers usually sat. The last of January, Mademoiselle de Tascher, niece of her Majesty the Empress, was married to the Duke of Aremberg.
She can remain in France, and do whatever she pleases; but she must now return to Paris. Countess Tascher came to me immediately after leaving the duke, in order to acquaint me with what he had said. "Friends and foes alike say this about you: 'Those who are not delighted with what is being done for the queen are bad people! And as for her, what has she to regret in all this?
Tascher that she scarcely left her room for ten days after it, and indeed did not wholly recover until another letter came, dated from far-off Syria, with a curious commingling of the strange and the familiar in the well-known handwriting and the foreign post-mark, assuring her that her young friend was safely sheltered under the protection of her guardian and his estimable wife.
"Prince Leopold resides in the same house with Countess Tascher; he is incessantly busied with yours and your mother's affairs; he at least is not oblivious of the kindness you have both shown him. I know that it is his intention to speak to the Emperor of Russia, and then write to you. "All your friends say that you must consider the interest of your children, and accept the future offered you.
Tascher brought into exercise the old charms and graces of manner and conversation that years ago had made her one of the most brilliant and fascinating women society could boast of. She was not old not more than thirty-five and when animated she was still beautiful: her face became illuminated and stars shone in her eyes.
The doctor of course fell readily in with the idea, and said he would not go down town this time to see if there were any orders: if anybody wanted him it was generally known that if he was not in his office he was at his boarding-place. "Why did you do it?" said Mrs. Tascher, putting her handkerchief on her head and going down to the gate with Ruth.
Not long after her birth, Captain Tascher thought to mend his prospects by moving to one of the neighboring islands. His wife went with him, but they left the baby girl in the hands of a good old aunt, until they could corral fortune and make things secure, for this world at least. They never came back, for they died and were buried. Josephine never had any recollection of her parents.
Miss Custer met her sweetly, being still under the subduing influence of invalidism, and Ruth tried to feel kindly to her; which was a great vexation to Mrs. Tascher. "Let me alone," said Ruth passionately one day. "Don't you see how I hate her? I could almost kill her! I am trying to fight down the demon in me."
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