October 19, 1791.
My last surmise was a true one. Madame has not spent a half hour all told in the garden since that night. She has turned her attention again to the oak parlor, and soon we shall see her make some decided move in regard to it.
CHAPTER XXI.
IN THE OAK PARLOR.
October 20, 1791.
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HE long expected move hasbeen made. This morning madame asked me ifI had not some room on the ground floor which Icould give to her daughter and her in exchangefor the one they now occupy. Her daughter hadbeen accustomed to living on one floor, and feltthe stairs keenly. |
I answered at first—"No." Then I appeared to bethink me, and told her, with seeming reluctance, that there was one room below which I sometimes opened to guests, but that just now it was in such a state of dilapidation I had shut it up till I could find the opportunity of repairing it.
"Oh!" she replied, subduing her eagerness to the proper point, "you need not wait for that. We are not particular persons. Only let me see the roses come back to my daughter's cheeks, and I can bear any amount of discomfort. Where is this room?"