Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Name: The Little French Girl — Part 2. Chapter 1
Author: Anne Douglas Sedgwick

The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

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“The Little French Girl — Part 2. Chapter 1”, published in 1924, is a work by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. It explores elements such as Alix, Toppie and Giles.

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ They had never again spoken of their secret, but, before he met her mother he ought to know whether Alix had told her what he knew of Owen's stays with them in Paris. Before he saw madame Vervier he ought to know what she knew about him; and suddenly, his eyes fixed upon the wharves and houses of Dieppe, he said: “You think she'll feel it all right that I'm come?”
“I wrote to her that you were coming,” said Alix. Her mind had perhaps been following some train of thought not far removed from his, for she spoke as if they were continuing a theme rather than taking it up. “She will be delighted.” ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ Giles was now aware of an uncomfortable astonishment. He had to remember that Alix was nearly seventeen. A woman could not have spoken with a more secure assurance of putting him in his place; and if, by the same token, she put Owen in his place, was she not, from her own point of view, her woman's dignity veiled only by her child's ignorance, justified in doing so? For if Owen had really kept madame Vervier in the dark she might have a right to resentment. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ Bradley's household, though not pledged to teetotal principles, eschewed all alcoholic drink, and Giles, as he listened, seeing the Virgin, the vineyards, the ingenuous piety, the pagan gaiety that Alix's words conjured up, wondered what her impressions of their unenlivened meals must have been.
“I wish I could see Vernay-les-Vouvières,” he said. “A beautiful country yours must be, so near the Alps.—We have sunny days in England, you know. It's a French superstition to think that English people go staggering about in a fog all the year round. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ For them it would be worse. But why should anyone feel pain now, when it is all over? Why should anything be spoiled?”
“It's only,” said Giles, going carefully, “that it seems unfair to your mother to let me come and keep her in ignorance of what I know. It's for you to judge, Alix; but since you love your mother so much, I rather wonder that you can bear to keep such a secret from her. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ But you can't answer for Toppie. You can't answer for anybody. And I have not only myself to think of. I have Maman. I can answer for Maman in this matter. She would not let me come.”
“Are you so sure of that?” broke from Giles. And now, pushed to it, he ventured far; he ventured very far, indeed. “After all she must have known that he kept a great deal from us. After all she must have known that he cared more for her than he did for Toppie; that he had been faithless to Toppie because of her.”
Poor little Alix. It was not fair. She paled in hearing him. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ So high and steep it is, the road climbs for miles before you reach it; and higher still, above the village, is an old, old statue of la Sainte Vierge, looking down over the vineyards and blessing them. ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ It was better that he should know, in regard to Alix's future, what they were “up against.” It had not been of Maman he was thinking when he assented; it had been, as on that day last Winter, of Alix herself. And that was why he was here, on his way to Normandy and the village on the cliff, and it was Dieppe that was showing now, along its wharves, façades of sunlit houses.
“Don't you think, Giles,” said Alix, “that the air in France is very different? ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ You ought to have got over that,” he added. “Our weather is as good as the weather in Northern France; every bit.”
“But different, Giles. As good; but not so happy. Never like wine, I think. Always there is something soft and sleepy in the air. After the air of France it is like milk.”
“Milk is a very excellent thing.”
“Yes. Excellent. As a food. But it does not make one want to sing.”
To this Giles said nothing.
“For a French town Dieppe is not so specially beautiful,” Alix took up presently ”

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Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl — Part 2… (1924)

“ But it is all over now; the new as well as the old. I need never tell her. For I am at home again and I shall never go back to Heathside.”
“Never come back to Heathside!” Actually for the moment Maman, Owen, Toppie, all the grief and perplexity that hung about these figures, were swept from Giles's mind by his deep discomfiture. “But this is only your holiday. ”

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