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In this way, Madame d'Imbleval spent the summer here one year and Madame Vaurois the following summer. Now these two ladies did not know each other. One of them was married to a Breton of a merchant-vessel and the other to a commercial traveller from the Vendee. "It so happened that they lost their husbands at the same time, at a period when each of them was expecting a baby.
"Have you never questioned him on this point?" "Yes, I have, twice. The first time, he said that his aunt's name was Vaurois and his mother's d'Imbleval." "And the second time?" "He told me the contrary: he spoke of his mother as Vaurois and of his aunt as d'Imbleval. I pointed this out. He coloured up and I thought it better not to question him any further." "Does he live far from Paris?"
Boussignol was scared out of her wits. However, at five o'clock in the morning, after many tragic incidents, she came in here with the d'Imbleval baby, likewise a boy, washed and tended him, laid him in his cradle and went off to help Madame Vaurois, who had come to herself and was crying out, while Madame d'Imbleval had fainted in her turn. And, when Mlle.
"What did he do? What happened?" "Well, what happened was that it was not one child but the two of them that died: Madame d'Imbleval's and Madame Vaurois' too, both in convulsions. Then the gentleman, seeing this, said, 'This shows me where my duty lies. I must seize this opportunity of making sure that my own boy shall be happy and well cared for.
"These two names, for instance?" "Yes, there was certainly that." "By what name did he introduce himself to you?" "Jean Louis d'Imbleval." "But Jean Louis Vaurois?" "That's what my father calls him." "Why?" "Because that was how he was introduced to my father, at Nice, by a gentleman who knew him. Besides, he carries visiting-cards which describe him under either name."
She held me out first to one, then to the other, to receive their caresses for I was the surviving child and they first kissed me and then pushed me away; for, after all, who was I? The son of the widowed Madame d'Imbleval and the late merchant-captain or the son of the widowed Madame Vaurois and the late commercial traveller?
Without quite knowing what he was saying and with the intention of responding to Renine's courteous behaviour, he tried in his turn to introduce the two ladies and let fall the astounding words: "My mother, Madame d'Imbleval; my mother, Madame Vaurois." For some time no one spoke. Renine bowed.
What sort of a life would Genevieve have had here, between Madame d'Imbleval and Madame Vaurois? I had no right to victimize her." Jean Louis, who had been gradually becoming excited, uttered these last words in a firm voice, as though he would have wished his conduct to be ascribed to conscientious motives and a sense of duty.
Aymard!... She has had the coolness ... she has had the audacity...!" Then Jean Louis, recovering his self-possession, laid hold of his mother d'Imbleval and pushed her out of the room by a door on the left and next of his mother Vaurois and pushed her out of the room by a door on the right.
"You're looking a little pale, my dear," said Renine, with a laugh, as they alighted by the gate of the garden at Elseven. "I'm very fond of Genevieve," she said. "She's the only friend I have. And I'm feeling frightened." He called her attention to the fact that the central gate was flanked by two wickets bearing the names of Madame d'Imbleval and Madame Vaurois respectively.
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