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M. du Boccage was absorbed in the restoration of Javiaux du Boccage; his wife was completely estranged from him. She had got rid of the presence but not the influence of Lucille Debelleyme. It was the same with her children, they avoided her, were sullen and petulant in her presence, all her arts could not win them. They openly lamented the absence of the beloved governess. "If only Mademoiselle were here." "We used to do so and so with Mademoiselle." "mademoiselle did it like that." "mademoiselle used to make it so amusing." And she had surprised out of them the confession that the governess wrote to them and they wrote to her.
"And to him also, I suppose," she thought. "How can life go on like this? I shall never separate them--never."