' I assured him that she would honour and
thank him in her heart for not having been weak, and he began to
repent of what he had left to be inferred, and to assure me of his
having neither said nor done anything that could be censured, with
vehement laudation of her sweetness and modesty.
The interview had been broken up by the sight of the return from
Church. Mrs. Van Hunker had had full time to retire to her room and
Eustace to arrange himself, so that no one guessed at the visitor he
had had. She came down to supper, and a few words and civilities had
passed between them, but he had never either seen or heard of her
since.
Harry Merrycourt, who had known of the early passages between them,
had never guessed that there was more than the encounter in the hall
to cause the melancholy which he kindly watched and bore with in my
brother, who was seriously ill again after he reached their lodgings
in London, and indeed I thought at the time when he was with me in
Paris, that his decay of health chiefly proceeded from sorrow of
heart.
CHAPTER XIII.
MADEMOISELLE'S TOILETTE.
We were to go to Madame de Choisy's assembly. She was the wife of
the Chanceller of the Duke of Orleans, and gave a fete every year, to
which all the court went; and, by way of disarming suspicion, all the
cavaliers who were in the great world were to attend to order that
their plans might not be suspected.
Our kind Queen Henrietta insisted on inspecting Nan and me before we
went.
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