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Miss Peyton could make no reply, but pointed to her niece.
The joy of Miss Peyton was more sobered, and she took frequent occasions to reprove her niece for the exuberance of her spirits, before there was a certainty that their expectations were to be realized.
"You gaze, my love, as if you thought a military show of some importance," said Miss Peyton, observing her niece to be looking from the window with a fixed and abstracted attention.
When Miss Peyton and her niece first learned the escape of Captain Wharton, it was with difficulty they could credit their senses.
Miss Peyton consoled herself, and endeavored to cheer her niece, with the probability that the fugitives would pursue their course with unremitting diligence, so that they might reach the neutral ground before the horse would carry down the tidings of their flight.
Frances and her aunt held a long and animated discussion by themselves, when the good spinster reluctantly yielded to the representation of her niece, and folding her in her arms, she kissed her cold cheek, and, fervently blessing her, allowed her to depart on an errand of fraternal love.
The light was shining in the window of her aunt, who, Frances easily fancied, was watching the mountain, racked with all the anxiety she might be supposed to feel for her niece.
She was urging her niece to take some refreshment after her fatiguing expedition, when the noise of a horseman riding to the door, announced the return of the major.
Miss Peyton received the avowal of her niece with infinite astonishment, and a little displeasure.
Unused to contention, and really much attached to her kinsman, the feeble objections of Miss Peyton gave way to the firmness of her niece.
Miss Peyton retired with her niece, to whom she conceived it necessary, before they separated for the night, to give an admonitory lecture on the subject of matrimonial duty.
The good lady, who had passed the half century, shut herself up in this solitary retreat, where along with her son Camille and her niece Therese, she partook of serene joy.
Her niece with her tranquil manner, and mute devotedness, inspired her with unlimited confidence.
When she suggested some repairs, some kind of embellishment, her niece quietly replied:"What need is there for it?
One day, fearing her niece was ill, Madame Raquin climbed the stairs.
These sudden outbursts of gaiety charmed Madame Raquin, who taxed her niece with being too serious.
Madame Raquin, who in her goodness of heart, felt pained at this attitude, sometimes said to the young man: "Do not pay attention to the manner of my niece, I know her; her face appears cold, but her heart is warm with tenderness and devotedness."
The two women contemplated one another for some seconds, the niece with increasing anxiety, the aunt with painful efforts of memory.
The abrupt apparition of her niece had brought about a favourable crisis that had just restored her memory, and the consciousness of things and beings around her.
The old mercer regarded him as the rescuer of her niece, as a noble-hearted young man who had done his utmost to restore her son to her, and she welcomed him with tender kindness.
When the old mercer inquired what made her niece so sad, the young woman played the part of an inconsolable widow with consummate skill.
She had, now, no one in the whole world but her niece, and she prayed the Almighty every night to preserve her this relative to close her eyes.
From that time, she never took her eyes off her niece, and it was with terror that she watched her sadness, wondering what she could do to cure her of her silent despair.
"Your niece finds life irksome because she had been alone for nearly two years.
Since her niece no longer spoke, and remained there pale and feeble, her own life became intolerable, while the shop seemed to her like a tomb.
She sought a husband for her niece, and this search gave her matter for consideration.
She wished to marry her niece in order to be happy herself, for she had keen misgivings lest the new husband of the young woman should come and trouble the last hours of her old age.
It was this thought alone that stopped her, that prevented her from talking openly with her niece about matrimony.
As the young couple sat close together, exchanging a few words, Michaud, who was observing them, bent down, and said in a low voice to the old mercer, as he pointed to Laurent:"Look, there is the husband who will suit your niece.
The marriage would tighten the bonds already connecting her and her niece with the friend of her son, with that good-natured fellow who came to amuse them in the evening.
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