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He rose, stood close to Wilhelmine, who also rose, instinctively, looked her straight in the face, and asked, point-blank: "Wilhelmine de Naarboveck, or Thérèse Auvernois it matters little to me I wish to know the real truth.... Confess, then, that you were Captain Brocq's mistress!" "Monsieur!" exclaimed the startled girl. She met de Loubersac's inquisitorial look proudly.
Prior to that event Etienne Rambert had scarcely known the Baronne de Vibray; now the two were intimate friends. The Baronne had not desisted from her first generous effort until she had persuaded the family council to appoint her guardian of the orphaned Thérèse Auvernois.
The shaded light from an electric lamp fell upon the bent head, oval face and delicate features of Thérèse Auvernois, who was intent upon a book. The girl was emerging from childhood into young womanhood now, and sorrow had heightened her natural distinction by giving her a stamp of gravity that was new.
I wanted to know what these dreadful misfortunes would be, and why they would follow as a matter of course, were it made known that I am Thérèse Auvernois. Thereupon the baron told me astonishing things.
When I spoke to the baron about this for the first time it was only a few weeks ago, and told him that I wished to appear as what I really am, Thérèse Auvernois, my father by adoption I may call him that, seeing how good, how kind he has been to me began by telling me it was impossible that the most terrible misfortunes would result from such a revelation.... I insisted.
More than ever before she felt in every fibre of her being that she was not the daughter of the baron de Naarboveck, that she was indeed Thérèse Auvernois. But what a fatal destiny must be hers!
Finally, youth was represented by Charles Rambert, who had arrived at the château a couple of days before, a charming lad of about eighteen who was treated with warm affection by the Marquise and by Thérèse Auvernois, the granddaughter of the Marquise, with whom since her parents' death she had lived as a daughter.
On M. Etienne Rambert's recommendation, Thérèse Auvernois was now one of these, and the young girl was perfectly happy in her new surroundings; time was helping her to forget the tragedy which had taken her grandmother from her at Beaulieu, and she enjoyed the company of the well-born, well-bred English gentlewomen. Lady Beltham was reclining on a sofa in the great hall of her house at Neuilly.
"Oh, I hope we are not being spied on!" "Of whom are you afraid?" asked de Loubersac. Wilhelmine or Thérèse Auvernois, as she had confessed herself to be glanced about her. There was not a soul within hearing! Now she would speak her mind to Henri her dear Henri and tell him all. "You want to know, dear one, why my existence has been surrounded with so many mysterious precautions of late years!
"That's Thérèse Auvernois, over there in the first row! The President of the Court gave her that seat; the officer who took the card of admission over to Querelles told me so." "That's where Mme. de Vibray lives, isn't it?" "Yes: she is sitting next to Thérèse now: that pretty woman in grey.
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