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'You, Veronique, come in only you, she said, at the door; and a waiting-woman, who had been in the carriage, obeyed, no longer clad in the Angevin costume, but in the richer and less characteristic dress of the ordinary Parisian femme de chambre. 'Undo my mantle in haste! gasped Madame de Selinville. 'O Veronique you saw what destruction!
'My good girl, said Elisabeth, with almost a beseeching gesture, 'let me see her. I do not know when again I may be able. Veronique stood aside, with the lowest possible of curtseys, just as her mistress with a feeble, weary voice murmured, 'Oh, make them let me alone!
Appealed to by Madame Sauviat, the rector, who had wished not to seem intrusive, came henceforth very frequently to visit Madame Graslin; he needed only to be warned that her soul was sick. This true pastor took care to pay his visits at the hour when Veronique came out to sit at the corner of the terrace with her child, both in deep mourning.
"Indeed I won't," I replied, and she drove off, smiling at me. I do wonder what she will think of my marriage with Christopher. Now it is night. I have had a miserable, lonely dinner in my sitting-room. Véronique has been most gracious and coddling she feels Mr. Carruthers in the air, I suppose and so I must go to bed.
Never did assistants of this ceremony more fully understand the grandeur and profundity of the sacrament than those who now saw the acts of the Church justly following the confession of that dying woman. Thus prepared, Veronique received the body of Jesus Christ with an expression of hope and joy which melted the ice of unbelief against which the rector had so often bruised himself.
"She is out walking; therefore she must be better." These simple words were on every lip. Madame Graslin's mother, seated on the iron bench which Veronique had formerly placed at the end of the terrace, studied every movement of her daughter; she watched her step in walking, and a few tears rolled from her eyes.
Monseigneur was assisted by four vicars. The magnificent vessels she had bestowed upon her dear parish church were brought to the house and gave splendor to the ceremony. Eight choristers in their white and red surplices stood in two rows from the bed to the door of the salon, each holding one of the large bronze-gilt candelabra which Veronique had ordered from Paris.
Véronique was frightfully interested. Mr. Carruthers she would have preferred, to me, she admitted, as being more solid, more "rangé," "plus
Would not that be a noble prayer to God? Such work would be a better occupation of your leisure than the indulgence of melancholy thoughts." Veronique pressed the rector's hand, answering with four brief words, but they were grand ones: "It shall be done." "You conceive the possibility of this great work," he went on; "but you cannot execute it.
The water left us but a narrow band along the ridge. One of the chimneys had just been carried away. We had to raise Marie and Veronique, who were still unconscious, and support them almost in a standing position to prevent the waves washing over their legs. At last, their senses returned, and our anguish increased upon seeing them wet, shivering and crying miserably that they did not wish to die.
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