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Letters passed between them in books given into one another's hands with an audacious openness of the saddest augury for the future of the pair, and Nevil could be so lost to reason as to glory in Renee's intrepidity, which he justified by their mutual situation, and cherished for a proof that she was getting courage. In fine, Rosamund abandoned her task of pleading.
Beauchamp's attention was drawn to her repetition of the phrase 'mistress of the house. However, she did him justice in regard to Renee, and thoroughly entered into the fiction of Renee's visit to her as her guest: he passed over everything else.
He had taken a bed at Renee's hotel, after wresting her boxes from the vanquished hotel proprietor, and lay there, hearing the clear sound of every little sentence of hers during the absence of Rosamund: her 'Adieu, and the strange 'Do you think so? and 'I know where I am; I scarcely know more. Her eyes and their darker lashes, and the fitful little sensitive dimples of a smile without joy, came with her voice, but hardened to an aspect unlike her.
'You are a perfect man of honour, my friend, and a woman would adore you. Girls are straws. It's part of Renee's religion to obey her father. That's why I was astonished!... I owe you my life, and I would willingly give you my sister in part payment, if I had the giving of her; most willingly. The case is, that she's a child, and you? 'Yes, I'm dependent, Beauchamp assented.
Lying on the deck at midnight, wrapt in his cloak and a coil of rope for a pillow, considerably apart from jesting Roland, the recollection of that little sanguine spot of time when Renee's life-blood ran with his, began to heave under him like a swelling sea. For Nevil the starred black night was Renee.
That is very soon; but M. Beauchamp is engaged in an Election, and what have we to induce him to stay? 'Would it not be better to tell M. Beauchamp why he was invited to come? rejoined Madame d'Auffray. The sombre light in Renee's eyes quickened through shadowy spheres of surprise and pain to resolution. She cried, 'You have my full consent, and left them.
Before the two families parted it was arranged that Noémi should be taken by her governess to attend the rehearsals at the Mauperins' house. Renée's whole-hearted friendliness and sparkling humour soon overcame Noémi's reserve, and under Denoisel's direction the amateur actors made rapid progress.
Renée's warm advances to the playmate of her childhood were received by Noémi with coolness, not to say reluctance, but the request that Noémi should take part in the theatricals met with her mother's approval, the shy girl's objections nervousness, lack of talent, and so forth being overruled by Madame Bourjot.
'You are a perfect man of honour, my friend, and a woman would adore you. Girls are straws. It's part of Renee's religion to obey her father. That's why I was astonished! . . . I owe you my life, and I would willingly give you my sister in part payment, if I had the giving of her; most willingly. The case is, that she's a child, and you? 'Yes, I'm dependent, Beauchamp assented.
You are alone: and you have told me nothing. What was there to tell? The desperate act was apparent, and told all. Renee's dark eyelashes lifted on him, and dropped. 'Then things are as I left them in Normandy? said he. She replied: 'Almost. He quivered at the solitary word; for his conscience was on edge. It ran the shrewdest irony through him, inexplicably.
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