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Godefroid, seeing that Vanda had fallen back half fainting on her chair, rushed into the corridor and from there into the street, running at full speed. "If you want your pardon," said Baron Bourlac to his grandson, "follow that man and find out where he lives." Auguste was off like an arrow.
Hersebom, in a strangely altered voice, "is that you are our son only by adoption. I found you on the sea, my child, and brought you home when you were only eight or nine months old. God is my witness that we never intended to tell you this, and neither my wife nor myself have ever made the least difference between you, and Otto, and Vanda. But Doctor Schwaryencrona requires us to do so.
It was the sincere desire of his adopted mother and of his little sister Vanda, etc., etc. The envelope also contained three pretty flowers, gathered on the borders of the fiord, and their perfume seemed to bring back vividly to Erik his gay and careless childhood.
He made himself quite at home, and, what was more remarkable, he succeeded in making Mr. Hersebom eat his supper. Vanda now entered carrying a large wooden dish, upon which was a saucer, which she offered so graciously to the doctor that he could not refuse it.
It was, she thought, the Britoness Vanda; but her countenance was no longer resentful her long yellow hair flew not loose on her shoulders, but was mysteriously braided with oak and mistletoe; above all, her right hand was gracefully disposed of under her mantle; and it was an unmutilated, unspotted, and beautifully formed hand which crossed the brow of Eveline.
"Well," said Vanda, "I told you, I think, that he is now employed by the attorney-general, who shows him the greatest kindness. Auguste was only forty-eight hours in the Conciergerie, where he was put into the governor's house.
"What can I do for you?" repeated the dentist a little irritably. "I've got toothache," murmured Vanda. "Aha! . . . Which is the tooth? Where?" Vanda remembered she had a hole in one of her teeth. "At the bottom . . . on the right . . ." she said. "Hm! . . . Open your mouth." Finkel frowned and, holding his breath, began examining the tooth.
"Is dead;" said Monsieur Bernard. "Was she very fair?" said Halpersohn, showing a slight impatience at being interrupted. "Here is her portrait," said Monsieur Bernard, unhooking from the wall a handsome frame which enclosed several fine miniatures. Halpersohn felt the head and handled the hair of the patient while he looked at the portrait of Vanda Tarlowska, born Countess Sobolewska.
Bredejord and the doctor waved a last farewell to Vanda from the deck. Mr. Malarius, already frightfully seasick, had retired to his bed. They were all so occupied with saying farewell that not one of them had noticed the arrival of Tudor Brown.
She promised herself to explain that to him when she next saw him while informing him, there and then, that she had taken up her abode there. A mere whim: Mademoiselle Vanda having gone away, the idea had attracted her of sleeping within a courtesan's curtains.
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