A year later she went to the deathbed of her mother, who, however,
disinherited her and gave her her curse. "So affected was she by the
terrible scene that her infant, born soon after, died." The Huberts had
no other children, and after twenty-four years they still mourned the
little one they had lost. She warmly approved of the adoption by her
husband and herself of the foundling child Angelique, whom she treated
with the greatest kindness. From the bitterness of her own experience
she had a horror of disobedience to parents, and when she found that the
consent of Monseigneur d'Hautecoeur could not be obtained to a marriage
between his son Felicien and Angelique, she did all she could to sever
the lovers. In this she was successful for a time, until the illness of
Angelique, and her miraculous recovery, induced the Bishop to give his
consent. Le Reve.
HUE (M.) a retired Government official, who was a sincere lover of art.
He was unfortunately not rich enough to be always buying pictures, and
could only bewail the blindness of the public which allowed a genius
to die of starvation; for he himself, convinced, had selected Claude
Lantier's crudest works, which he hung by the side of his Delacroix,
predicting an equal fortune for them.
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