But such are the military. He only wanted to
get rid of you: this done (through your want of spirit), he scorns the
rich prize; so now I scorn HIM. Will you come for a walk?"
"Oh, yes!"
"We will go and look for my deserter. I say, tell me now; cannot I write
to the commander-in-chief about this? a soldier has no right to be a
deserter, has he? tell me, you are a public man, and know everything
except my heart."
"Is it not too bad to tease me to-day?"
"Yes! but please! I have had few amusements of late. I find it so dull
without you to tease."
Formal permission to tease being conceded, she went that instant on the
opposite tack, and began to tell him how she had missed him, and how
sorry she had been anything should have occurred to vex their kind good
friend. In short, Edouard spent a delightful day, for Rose took him one
way to meet Josephine, who, she knew, was coming another. At night the
last embers of jealousy got quenched, for Josephine was a wife now, and
had already begun to tell Camille all her little innocent secrets; and
she told him all about Edouard and Rose, and gave him his orders; so he
treated Rose with great respect before Edouard; but paid her no marked
attention; also he was affable to Riviere, who, having ceased to
suspect, began to like him.
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