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At that period several societies for the relief and tendance of the wounded had been formed by the women of Paris, the earliest, if I mistake not, by ladies of the highest rank amongst whom were the Comtesse de Vandemar and the Contessa di Rimini though it necessarily included others of stations less elevated.
The Prefet this time did not withdraw his hand; he extended it, but it was with a certain awkwardness and timidity. "I thought it my duty to call on you, Vicomte, thus early, having already seen M. Enguerrand de Vandemar.
All the previous night, while Enguerrand was buried in profound slumber, Raoul remained in his brother's room; sometimes on his knees before the ivory crucifix which had been their mother's last birthday gift to her youngest son sometimes seated beside the bed in profound and devout meditation. At daybreak, Madame de Vandemar stole into the chamber.
"Well, I was employed in the winter in redecorating the salon, and boudoir, of Madame de Vandemar; her son, M. Raoul, took great interest in superintending the details. He would sometimes talk to me very civilly, not only on my work, but on other matters. It seems that Madame now wants something done to the salle-a-manger, and asked old Gerard my late master, you know to send me.
"Ah, cher Monsieur Savarin," says Enguerrand de Vandemar, whose patrician blood is so pure from revolutionary taint that he is always instinctively polite, "what a masterpiece in its way is that little paper of yours in the 'Sens Commun, upon the connection between the national character and the national diet! so genuinely witty! for wit is but truth made amusing."
This little incident, and the slighting kind of notice received from coevals of his own birth, and doubtless his own blood, for he divined truly that they were the sons of the Count de Vandemar, disconcerted Alain to a degree which perhaps a Frenchman alone can comprehend. He had even half a mind to give up his visit and turn back.
Now, give me leave to speak on affairs. I have seen your cousin Enguerrand de Vandemar. Homme de moyens, though joli garcon. He proposed that you should call on me. I said 'no' to the cher petit Enguerrand, a visit from me was due to you. To cut matters short, M. Gandrin has allowed me to look into your papers. I was disposed to serve you from the first; I am still more disposed to serve you now.
"Please, Monsieur de Vandemar, to tell my coachman to drive home," said Mrs. Morley. The carriage turned and went homeward. The Colonel lifted his hat, and rode back to see what the gamins were about. Enguerrand, who had no interest in the gamins, and who looked on the Colonel as a bore, rode by the side of the carriage. "Is there anything serious in this?" asked Mrs. Morley.
Raoul de Vandemar had been all the earlier part of the day with the assistants of the ambulance over which he presided, attached to the battalions of the National Guard in a quarter remote from that in which his brother had fought and fallen.
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