With a delicacy for which one would hardly have given him credit, he
never came near Beaurepaire till all this was settled; but he brought
the document from Paris that made Josephine the widow Dujardin, and
her boy the heir of Beaurepaire; and the moment she was really Madame
Dujardin he avoided her no longer; and he became a comfort to her
instead of a terror.
The dissolution of the marriage was a great tie between them. So much
that, seeing how much she looked up to Raynal, the doctor said one day
to the baroness, "If I know anything of human nature, they will marry
again, provided none of you give her a hint which way her heart is
turning."
They, who have habituated themselves to live for others, can suffer as
well as do great things. Josephine kept alive. A passion such as hers,
in a selfish nature, must have killed her.
Even as it was, she often said, "It is hard to live."
Then they used to talk to her of her boy. Would she leave him--Camille's
boy--without a mother? And these words were never spoken to her quite in
vain.
Her mother forgave her entirely, and loved her as before.
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