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Call me Fidele, and if you want to give me another remembrancer than that which will always live in my heart, present me, as the highest token of your favor, with the little gold smelling-bottle which I saw you use in the Logograph box on that dreadful day. I gave him the trinket at once. He kneeled down in order to receive it, and when he kissed my hand his hot tears fell upon it.
It was as if we lay in a dim, luminous chaos, ourselves an integral part of its self-containment. I did not stir; but I spoke: and my strange voice broke the enchantment. Surely never before or since was speech exchanged under such conditions. "'Fidèle! "'I can speak, but I cannot look. If I hide so for ever I can die bravely. "'Ma petite! oh, my little one! Are you hurt? "'I don't know.
And there, where the torrent splits up into a score of insignificant streams, we grounded and crawled to dry land and sat down and laughed. "Yes, we could do it we could laugh. Is that not bathos? But Fidèle and I have a theory that laughter is the chief earnest of immortality. "To dry land I have said. Mon Dieu! the torrent was no wetter. It rains in the Chamounix valley.
"Still, it is a wise precaution, I will admit, not to eat of all hedge fruit because blackberries are sweet. Some day, after the fiftieth stomach-ache, we shall learn wisdom, my Fidèle and I. "'Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. That, I know, comes into the English gospel. "Well, I will tell you, I am content to be considered of the first; and my Fidèle is assuredly of the second.
"Not, sire," she cried, "until you tell me that you have forgiven me that you have forgiven us all." "I forgive you? What have I to forgive in you? Monsieur Fouche, who is this lady who knows me and my destinies, and who brings me greetings from Fidele? What have I to forgive in her? Who is she? Tell me her name?" "Monsieur," said Fouche, slowly approaching, "this lady is " "Hush!
Tell me now, my king and my dearly-loved lord, will you trust me, will you give to your most devoted servant and subject the privilege of releasing you? Do you consent to accept freedom at the hands of your Fidele?" The child threw a timid, anxious glance at Simon and his wife, and then, with a shudder, turned his head to one side. "You make no answer, sire," said Toulan, imploringly.
It is this country which is to me a land of savages, for I live alone, having no one to whom I can impart those feelings of tenderness for you which I shall bear with me to the grave. I am, "My dearest and beloved mother, "Your affectionate and dutiful daughter, "I recommend to your goodness Mary and Domingo, who took so much care of my infancy; caress Fidele for me, who found me in the wood."
"It was that poor Fidele that I gave your husband," said Mademoiselle de Corandeuil, who was always very sentimental in the choice of names she gave to animals. "He merited his name, Mademoiselle, for the poor beast died for his master, for whom the shot was in tended.
"Here, drink, drink while it is effervescent." "I cannot drink," said Vivian, "I am not thirsty; I am too hot; I am anything " "How foolish you are! It will be quite, spoiled." "No, no; the dog shall have it. Here, Fidele, you look thirsty enough; come here " "Mr.
The pains of each had been surmounted, and, even in death, Toulan would do honor to the name which that woman had given him whom he had loved most sacredly on earth-and he would die as Fidele. The ladies and gentlemen of this unwontedly solemn company, who were collected here in view of the scaffold, had dismounted from the cars.
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