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He led her before the portrait of the ancestral marshal of France, and said: "Twenty-three years ago I vowed before that portrait either to vanquish the enemy or to regain with honor all that I had lost at play. I have kept my word. Will you be my wife?" "Ah, you know my heart is yours!" Zibeline whispered, hiding her face upon his shoulder.
Then, as Mademoiselle de Vermont was about to mingle with the other ladies, the Duchess detained her an instant, inquiring: "Have you any engagement for this evening, Mademoiselle?" "None, Madame." "Will you do us the honor to join us in my box at the opera?" "But I have no one to accompany me," said Zibeline.
Meantime the aforesaid tournament went on in the centre of the sheet of ice, and Zibeline, without mingling with the other skaters, contented herself with skirting the borders of the lake, rapidly designing a chain of pierced hearts on the smooth surface, an appropriate symbol of her own superiority.
As he was not so curious as the Desvanneaux, it mattered little to him to what place they took him, so long as he should find Zibeline at the end of the journey. At the appointed hour the brother and sister drove to the Gare du Nord. The Duke, a director of the road, who had been obliged to attend a convocation of the Council until noon, had preceded them.
"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 have read your Zibeline, my dear friend, and this romance your first has given me a very keen pleasure. You told me once that you felt a certain timidity in publishing it. Reassure yourself immediately.
"Here it is," replied the notary, handing her a visiting card. "'Valentine de Vermont," she read aloud. "Zibeline?" cried Madame de Nointel. "Bravo! I offer her the assurance of my esteem!" "And I also," added Madame de Lisieux. "I can not offer mine," said Madame Desvanneaux, dryly. "A young woman who is received nowhere!"
It was rather to escape from them, dear Mademoiselle! But alas! my visit has also another object: to release you from the promise you were so kind as to make me regarding the matter of our kermess; a project now unfortunately rendered futile by that Zibeline!" "Otherwise called 'Mademoiselle de Vermont." "I prefer to call her Zibeline that name is better suited to a courtesan."
"Now that I have Madame la Duchesse, your sister, for an ally, I fear no enemies." "Not even if I should call for aid upon the camp of Desvanneaux?" "Alceste leagued with Tartufe? That idea never occurred to Moliere," said Zibeline, mischievously. "Take care!" said the Duchess, interrupting this skirmishing, "you will fall over into the orchestra!
The door of the large, right-hand box opened, and Zibeline appeared, accompanied by the Chevalier de Sainte-Foy, an elderly gallant, carefully dressed and wearing many decorations, and whose respectable tale of years could give no occasion for malicious comment on his appearance in the role of 'cavalier servente'. Having assisted his companion to remove her mantle, he profited by the instant of time she took to settle her slightly ruffled plumage before the mirror, to lay upon the railing of the box her bouquet and her lorgnette.
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