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Updated: May 13, 2025
I am the daughter of Paul Landry." "You!" "Yes. The daughter of Paul Landry, whose fortune had no other origin than the large sum of which he despoiled you." Henri made a gesture of denial. "Pardon me!" Zibeline continued. "He was doubly your debtor, since this sum had been increased tenfold when you rescued him from the Mexicans who were about to shoot him.
The General ordered the top laid back, and helped to lift and place upon the cushions on the back seat the thin mattress on which Zibeline lay; then he took his place on the front seat, made the men draw the carriage-top back into its proper position, and the equipage rolled smoothly, and without a jar, to its destination.
"I found your card last night," said Zibeline, "and I have come here this morning to return your call!" Then, leaning back in her driving-seat in order to reveal Edmond Delorme installed beside her, she added: "I have brought also my painter-in-ordinary. We have watched the review together, and he is as enthusiastic as I over the picturesque effect of this improvised bivouac. See!
He dined at different places, but oftenest with his sister, where by this time a studied silence was preserved on the subject of Zibeline. This, however, did not prevent him from thinking of her more and more.
"Good morning, General!" came the sound of a fresh, gay voice behind, which sent a thrill through him. He turned and saw Zibeline, who had just stopped a few steps distant from him, sitting in her carriage, to which was harnessed a pretty pair of cobs, prancing and champing their bits. "Ah, it is you, Mademoiselle!" he said, carrying his hand to the visor of his kepi, fastened under his chin.
As for Henri, silent and absorbed, he hesitated between the dread of facing a new emotion and the desire to go once more to gaze upon the tower of Prerolles, hardly more than two kilometres distant. "What is the matter with you, General?" Zibeline asked, observing that he did not appear to take pleasure in the surprise she had prepared. "I lived here many years a long time ago," he replied.
"The smiles of Fortune must be sweet, Mademoiselle," said the General, bowing low. "Not so sweet as those of Glory, General," Zibeline replied, with a pretty air of deference. "She possesses a decidedly ready wit," said Madame de Lisieux in a confidential aside.
The people looked at them all the more because Seaman was still prancing, but without unseating his mistress, who held him at any gait or any degree of swiftness that pleased her. "What a good seat you have!" said Henri. "That is the first real compliment you ever have paid me. I shall appropriate it immediately, before you have time to retract it," Zibeline replied.
"I should have been very well pleased, however " murmured young Desvanneaux, with regret. "If you had married her, Victor," said his mother, "I should have taken full charge of her wardrobe, and should have made some decided changes, I assure you." Perfectly indifferent to the general curiosity, Zibeline in her turn calmly reviewed the audience.
He appeared, on the side nearest the observer, to be pawing the ground impatiently with his hoof, a movement which seemed to be facilitated by his rider, who, drawn in a three-quarters view and extending her hand, allowed the reins to fall over the shoulders of her pure-blooded mount. "What do you think of it?" Zibeline inquired of General de Prerolles.
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