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With a little shriek of joy Tephany took the necklace, and snapping the clasp ran to the mirror which hung in the corner. Ah, this time she was not afraid of Aziliez or of any other girl, for surely none could be as fair and white as she. And with the sight of her face a thought came to her, and putting on hastily her best dress and her buckled shoes she hurried off to the dance.
'Take this, she said; 'to-day at any rate you shall dine well, and the old woman took it, gazing at Téphany the while. 'Those who help others deserve to be helped, she answered; 'your eyes are still red because that miser Barbaïk has forbidden you to speak to the young man from Plover.
At the end of an hour they arrived at a splendid castle, and Téphany, who would not move, was lifted out and carried into the hall, while a priest was sent for to perform the marriage ceremony.
Do you think it would do any good to beat her a little? she added to Denis, who shook his head. 'That is enough for the first time. I will go into the town and find out the value of each pearl. 'Then I will go with you, said Barbaïk, who never trusted any one and was afraid of being cheated. So the two went out, leaving Téphany behind them.
Next evening, at the moment when Denis was accustomed to wait for her in the shadow of the cowhouse, Tephany stuck the pin in her dress, and at the very same instant Barbaik took up her sabots or wooden shoes and went through the orchard and past to the fields, to the plot where the cabbages grew.
'Take this long copper pin, she went on, 'and every time you stick it in your dress Mother Bourhis will be obliged to leave the house in order to go and count her cabbages. As long as the pin is in your dress you will be free, and your aunt will not come back until you have put it in its case again. Then, rising, she nodded to Tephany and vanished.
But in any case, night after night he came back, only to find her growing wiser and wiser. Soon the neighbours whispered their surprise among themselves, for Téphany had not been able to resist the pleasure of putting the feather in her hair for some of the people who despised her for her poor clothes, and many were the jokes she made about them.
On the path in front of her stood the fairy who had given her the pin, and as she glanced at Téphany she gave a little mischievous laugh and said: 'Why, my pretty maiden hardly looks happier than she did before, in spite of meeting her lover whenever she pleases. 'He has grown tired of me, answered Téphany in a trembling voice, 'and he makes excuses to stay away.
On the way she met a beautiful carriage with a young man seated in it. 'What a lovely maiden! he exclaimed, as Téphany approached. 'Why, there is not a girl in my own country that can be compared to her. She, and no other, shall be my bride. The carriage was large and barred the narrow road, so Téphany was forced, much against her will, to remain where she was.
It is for your good as well as ours, and she held out her apron to catch them, and Denis his hat. But Téphany could hardly bear any more.
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