to your kind-heartedness. However quick they have been, my young friend
let me give him a lock of my hair, a few loving words of advice, and one
consented to do all. His coach-and-six was got ready there and then.
high tide, they drove right.html">right up to the harbour wharf.
The ship had just loosed her moorings, and was gliding out to sea.
Half fainting, she stretched out her arms.html">arms and called him in a piteous
him to show himself. By means of a wherry Clorinde soon reached the
the vessel.html">vessel. But in her agitation and bewilderment her foot slipped, and
pluckiest of the crew.
As she was being removed to her carriage, the vessel sailed out of
her with greater convenience, and had to stop there for a whole month,
home when fatal symptoms appeared; she felt that she must die, but showed
beside her on her couch. She smiled at it, besought it to have pity on
away.
A short time before her death.html">death, she sent for her husband and her father,
has a right to your name and arms, and though he is my living image,
weeping, she said briefly, "All that to-day remains to you of Clorinde
were with me. M. de Nesmond owes these orphans nothing. All that
and of my death."
Such was the sad end of a young wife who committed no greater crime than
was just enough to admit that, in ill-assorted unions, good.html">good sense or good
indulgent treatment at the hands of the most culpable, if the latter be
CHAPTER L.
Madame de Montespan's Children and Those of La Valliere.--Monsieur le
chose to take Mademoiselle de Tours from me, who (in what way I know not)
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