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<p>“What, such a strong girl, with the complexion of a Spaniard, and hair like jet!⁠—She, consumptive!”</p>
<p>“Yes⁠—so they say. She did something imprudent⁠—”</p>
<p>“Ah, ha!” cried some Vilquin.</p>
<p>“She came in from a ride bathed in perspiration and drank iced water, at least so <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Troussenard says.”</p>
<p>“She came in from a ride bathed in perspiration and drank iced water, at least so <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Troussenard says.”</p>
<p>By the time Madame Dumay returned, the troubles of the Mignons were an exhausted subject; no one thought anything more of Caroline’s absence or the reappearance of the cashier’s wife.</p>
<p>At the beginning of 1827 the newspapers were full of the trial of Georges d’Estounry, who was proved guilty of constant cheating at play. This young pirate vanished abroad without thinking any more about Mademoiselle Mignon, whose money value was destroyed by the bankruptcy at le Havre. Before long Caroline knew that she was deserted, and her father a ruined man. She came home in a fearful state of mortal illness, and died a few days afterwards at the Chalet. Her death, at any rate, saved her reputation. The malady spoken of by Monsieur Mignon at the time of his daughter’s elopement was very generally believed in, and the medical orders which had sent her off, it was said, to Nice.</p>
<p>To the very last the mother hoped to save her child. Bettina was her darling, as Modeste was her father’s. There was something touching in this preference: Bettina was the image of Charles, as Modeste was of her mother. They perpetuated their love in their children. Caroline, a Provençal, inherited from her father the beautiful blue-black hair, like a raven’s wing, which we admire in the daughters of the south, the hazel, almond-shaped eye as bright as a star, the olive complexion with the golden glow of a velvety fruit, the arched foot, the Spanish bust that swells beneath the bodice. And the father and mother were alike proud of the charming contrast of the two sisters.</p>
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