‘Monsieur Charvill,’ pursued Valade, ‘has left the chateau, and since we have
heard from him nothing at all, but for the letters to his daughter from Italy. She gave up as he finished, spending himself in
her mouth. But
she had spent nearly half of it, and had no conception of how such a sum could
be made good again. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. He now tells her that she is free, no longer a slave. Was the situation so
desperate that he could not pack his best things?
She had packed lightly, not wanting to weigh down the
carriage they would travel in.
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