You will
do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French
a little, and the more you are with her the better.'
'I understand then, Mr. Ruthyn, you weesh I should resume my instructions?'
asked Madame.
'Certainly; and converse all you can in French with Mademoiselle Maud. You
will be glad, my dear, that I've insisted on it,' he said, turning to me,
'when you have reached France, where you will find they speak nothing else.
And now, dear Maud--no, not a word more--you must leave me. Farewell,
Madame!'
And he waved us out a little impatiently; and I, without one look toward
Madame de la Rougierre, stunned and incensed, walked into my room and shut
the door.
CHAPTER LV
_THE FOOT OF HERCULES_
I stood at the window--still the same leaden sky and feathery sleet before
me--trying to estimate the magnitude of the discovery I had just made.
Gradually a kind of despair seized me, and I threw myself passionately on
my bed, weeping aloud.
Good Mary Quince was, of course, beside me in a moment, with her pale,
concerned face.
'Oh, Mary, Mary, she's come--that dreadful woman, Madame de la Rougierre,
has come to be my governess again; and Uncle Silas won't hear or believe
anything about her.
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