RISING.
To explain the arrival of Mdlle.de Cardoville at the garden-door of the house occupied by Djalma, we must cast a retrospective glance at previous events.On leaving Doctor Baleinier's, Mdlle.de Cardoville had gone to take up her residence in the Rue d'Anjou.During the last few months of her stay with her aunt, Adrienne had secretly caused this handsome dwelling to be repaired and furnished, and its luxury and elegance were now increased by all the wonders of the lodge of Saint-Dizier House.The world found it very strange, that a lady of the age and condition of Mdlle.de Cardoville should take the resolution of living completely alone and free, and, in fact, of keeping house exactly like a bachelor, a young widow, or an emancipated minor.The world pretended not to know that Mdlle.de Cardoville possessed what is often wanting in men, whether of age or twice of age--a firm character, a lofty mind, a generous heart, strong and vigorous good sense.
Judging that she would require faithful assistance in the internal management of her house, Adrienne had written to the bailiff of Cardoville, and his wife, old family servants, to come immediately to Paris: M.Dupont thus filled the office of steward, and Mme.Dupont that of housekeeper.An old friend of Adrienne's father, the Count de Montbron, an accomplished old man, once very much in fashion, and still a connoisseur in all sorts of elegances, had advised Adrienne to act like a princess, and take an equerry; recommended for this office a man of good rearing and ripe age, who, himself an amateur in horses, had been ruined in England, at Newmarket, the Derby, and Tattersall's, and reduced, as sometimes happened to gentlemen in that country, to drive the stage-
coaches, thus finding an honest method of earning his bread, and at the same time gratifying his taste for horses.Such was M.de Bonneville, M.