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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.
But I know that she says her real name is Mademoiselle de Vermont, and that she was born in Louisiana, of an old French family that emigrated to the North, and recently became rich in the fur trade-from which circumstance Madame de Nointel has wittily named her 'Zibeline. I know also that she is an orphan, that she has an enormous fortune, and has successively refused, I believe, all pretenders who have thus far aspired to her hand."
"I shall take good care not to fail to call," earnestly replied the fair Lady Bountiful. She telephoned immediately to her head-groom, ordering ham to bring around her brougham at three o'clock. At the same hour that the elegant carriage of Zibeline was conducting her to the Hotel de Montgeron, M. Desvanneaux descended from a modest fiacre at the gate of the hotel occupied by Eugenie Gontier.
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.
"She has superb lines," said the painter, without interrupting his drawing. "Well, I am curious to know whether she could beat Seaman," said Zibeline. "Are you willing to run a race with me, General?" "As you please some morning when you return to the Bois." "You noticed my absence, then?" "I assure you that I did," Henri replied, earnestly.
"I thank you, Mademoiselle," bowing, hat in hand, to his charming conductor. "Call me Valentine, please," she responded, with her usual ease of manner. "Even in the character of a stage father, that would be rather too familiar," said the Marquis. "Not so much so as to call me Zibeline," said Mademoiselle de Vermont, laughing. "Ha! ha! You know your sobriquet, then?" "I have known it a long time!
As she traversed the ranks of her admirers to go to change her costume for the last act, she found herself face to face with Zibeline, who, having quickly recovered from her emotion, was advancing on the arm of the Chevalier de Sainte-Foy. "My dear child," said the old nobleman to the actress, "I bring to you Mademoiselle de Vermont, who wishes to say to you herself "
"That Mademoiselle must be very tired of listening to our praises," interrupted Zibeline. "But if the tribute of a foreigner can prove to her that her prestige is universal, I beg that she will accept these flowers which I dared not throw to her from my box." "Really, Mademoiselle, you embarrass me!" Eugenie replied, somewhat surprised.
He pointed to a passing fiacre, at the same time hailing the driver. "Don't call him. I will take you home myself," said Zibeline, as if such a suggestion were the most natural thing in the world. "You know that in France it is not the custom," said the General. "What! Do you bother yourself with such things at your age?" "If my age seems to you a sufficient guaranty, that is different.
The order for the mobilizing of his own division having been received and transmitted, Henri's evening was his own, and he resolved to pass it with Lenaieff, feeling certain that his colleague at least would speak to him of Zibeline. The aide-de-camp general lived at the Hotel Continental, much frequented by Russians of distinction.
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