CHAPTER IX.
The baroness took the doctor a-shopping; she must buy Rose a gray silk.
In doing this she saw many other tempting things.

I say no more.
But the young ladies went up to Beaurepaire in the other carriage, for Josephine wished to avoid the gaze of the town, and get home and be quiet.

The driver went very fast.

He had drunk the bride's health at the mayor's, item the bridegroom's, the bridesmaid's, the mayor's, etc., and "a spur in the head is worth two in the heel," says the proverb.
The sisters leaned back on the soft cushions, and enjoyed the smooth and rapid motion once so familiar to them, so rare of late.
Then Rose took her sister gently to task for having offered to go to Egypt.

She had forgotten her poor sister.
"No, love," replied Josephine, "did you not see I dared not look towards you?
I love you better than all the world; but this was my duty.