Be comforted;
although this fatal moment may be far off, when it does arrive, you may be
sure to repose in holy ground."
"Oh! thank you, madame!" cried La Lorraine. "If I might dare to ask
permission to kiss your hand."
Clemence presented her hand to the parched lips of La Lorraine.
"Oh! thank you, madame. I shall have some one to pray for and bless to the
end, with La Goualeuse, and shall be no longer sad, for after my death---"
This resignation, and the fears far beyond the grave, had painfully
affected Lady d'Harville; she whispered to the sister who came to inform
her that Miss de Fermont was completely restored, "Is the condition of this
young woman really desperate?"
"Alas! yes, madame; La Lorraine is given up; she has not perhaps, a week to
live."
Half an hour afterward, Madame d'Harville, accompanied by Saint Remy, took
with her, to her own house, the young orphan, from whom she had concealed
the death of her mother.
The same day an agent of Lady d'Harville, after having visited in the Rue
de Barillerie the miserable abode of Jeanne Duport, and having received the
most favorable accounts of this worthy woman, immediately hired on the Quai
de l'Ecole two large rooms and a bedroom; thanks to the resources of the
Temple, they were furnished in two hours, and the same evening, Jeanne
Duport was removed to this dwelling, where she found her children and an
excellent nurse.
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