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She was conscious even then that Mabel and Ethel, the stepsisters, were as nothing in comparison to herself in her mother's regard. She had a certainty that her mother had loved her own father very much the young, brilliant, spendthrift, last La Sarthe. And her mother had been of the family, too a distant cousin.
He inquired the price of land, of houses, of estates; he made Mademoiselle Cormon describe at length the confluence of the Sarthe and the Brillante; he expressed surprise that the town was placed so far from the river, and seemed to be much interested in the topography of the place.
The vast buildings seemed as prisons, the rush and flurry as worrying storms, and even the parks as only feeble reminders of her dear La Sarthe Chase. Nothing had made the least real impression upon her except Kensington Gardens, and they to the end of her life would probably be only a reminder of pain. But her first view of the sea! That was something revivifying!
"Is the Duke at home?" he inquired of the Swiss. Receiving an affirmative reply, he crossed the courtyard, and was soon announced to his brother-in-law, the noble proprietor of La Sarthe, deputy of the Legitimist opposition to the Corps Legislatif of the Empire. The Duc de Montgeron listened in silence to his relative's explanation of his situation.
Thus the campaign in which I became interested was carried on principally in the departments of Eure-et-Loir, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, and Sarthe, to terminate, at last, in Mayenne. Great indiscipline prevailed among the troops whom La Motte-Rouge had under his orders. An attack by Von der Tann to the north of Orleans on October 10, led to the retreat of a part of the French forces.
The gate between Wendover and La Sarthe Chase which had been closed for over a hundred years was to be boarded up, and their side of the haw-haw which for nearly a mile divided the two parks was to be deepened and cleared out, and the spikes mended in any places where the ground might have seemed to have fallen in sufficiently, or the irons to have become broken enough to make the passage easy.
At dawn of the day after their departure Hulot and his troop were on the high-road to Alencon, about three miles from that town towards Mortagne, at a part of the road which leads through pastures watered by the Sarthe.
He found himself seated between Miss La Sarthe and Halcyone and quite enjoying himself. Everything was of the time from the épergne to the way the bread was cut. Halcyone conversed with Mr. Miller, who always felt he must make nursery jokes with her and ask her the names of her dolls. "He can't help it," she told Cheiron one day.
And then the adieus were said, Halcyon's first lesson having been arranged to begin on the morrow. When the visitor had gone and the door was shut: "A very worthy, cultivated gentleman, Roberta," Miss La Sarthe announced to her sister. "We must ask him to dinner the next time Mr. Miller is coming.
The isolation in which the inhabitants of La Sarthe Chase lived could not be more complete. The Italian parlor had its own slightly pathetic cachet.
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