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The young provincial did not understand the amenities of a triple alliance. "M. de Restaud," said the Countess, introducing her husband to the law student. Eugene bowed profoundly. "This gentleman," she continued, presenting Eugene to her husband, "is M. de Rastignac; he is related to Mme. la Vicomtesse de Beauseant through the Marcillacs; I had the pleasure of meeting him at her last ball."
As usual, she concealed her embarrassment by redoubling her sarcasm. "Very likely," said she, "I was mistaken, and you may be right after all. What day shall we have the honor of saluting Madame la Vicomtesse de Gerfaut?"
She had perhaps been hearing of my wilfulness and insubordination, for she was very grand and formal with me, solemnly calling me Madame la Vicomtesse, and never her niece, and I thought all the time that I detected a sneer. If I had wished for my husband's sake to accompany him, I wished it ten thousand times more when I fully beheld the alternative. Ah! I am writing treason.
There is Valenciennes, for example " She stopped abruptly. The man was gray, but not on his account did the Vicomtesse stay her speech. She forgot him as though he did not exist, and by one of those swift transitions which thrilled me had gone to the sobbing Antoinette and taken her in her arms, murmuring endearments of which our language is not capable. I, too, forgot Auguste.
The ladies who formed the quadrille were la Marquise de Marmier, the Vicomtesse de Noailles, and Madame Standish; all excellent dancers, and attired in that most becoming of all styles of dress, the demi-toilette, which is peculiar to France, and admits of the after-dinner promenades or unceremonious visits in which French ladies indulge.
He spoke of reforms which he intended to accomplish, as a prince might have done on taking possession of a kingdom. Then he requested the vicomtesse not to miss the service on Sunday, and to communicate a all the festivals. "You and I," he said, "we are at the head of the district; we must rule it and always set them an example to follow.
"When I was eleven years of age and ran away from Temple Bow after my father died, Polly Ann found me in the hills. When she married Tom McChesney they took me across the mountains into Kentucky with them. Polly Ann has been more than a mother to me." "Oh!" said Madame la Vicomtesse. Then she looked at me with a stranger expression than I had yet seen in her face.
Then, before I could answer him, the door was flung wide, and into the room, in nightcap and hastily donned robe looking a very meagre in that disfiguring deshabille swept the Vicomtesse. "See," she cried to her husband, her strident voice raised in reproach "see to what a pass you have brought us!"
He looked down at her with a great tenderness, he spoke her name, and I knew that he had taken her at last into his arms. "Come," he said. They went in together, and the doors closed behind them. Antoinette's maid was on the step, and the Vicomtesse and I were alone once more in the little parlor. I remember well the sense of unreality I had, and how it troubled me.
I saw the Baron as in a glass, darkly. But I kept my head, principally because the situation had elements of danger. "The image of Madame la Vicomtesse, Monsieur," I said. "Dame!" exclaimed his Excellency, eying me with a new interest, "I did not suspect you of being a courtier." "No more he is, Monsieur le Baron," said the Vicomtesse, "for he speaks the truth." His Excellency looked blank.
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