Pierre noticed his joyous look. He gave a wink to his wife as if to say: "He's taken a glass or two."
It was not so; the shock which he had received had completely dislodged the last trace of melancholy.
CHAPTER XVI.
Shadow and Sunshine.
hat was Adèle doing? She was not engaged. It was one of Jacques' inventions, or rather deductions, from what he saw.
She was being gradually drawn towards the abyss, where her soul would lose all that it possessed that was divine, and into which, to all appearances, she was finally to plunge, pushed by an unseen hand, drawn thither by a magic power.