The Wedding with Crimson Favours

And trust me not at all or all in all.--TENNYSON


So extensive was the Louvre, so widely separated the different
suites of apartments, that Diane and Eustacie had not met after the
pall-mall party till they sat opposite to their several queens in
the coach driving through the woods, the elder cousin curiously
watching the eyes of the younger, so wistfully gazing at the
window, and now and then rapidly winking as though to force back a
rebellious tear.

The cousins had been bred up together in the convent at Bellaise,
and had only been separated by Diane's having been brought to court
two years sooner than Eustacie.  They had always been on very
kindly, affectionate terms; Diane treating her little cousin with
the patronage of an elder sister, and greatly contributing to
shield her from the temptations of the court. 

The elder cousin was so much the more handsome, brilliant, and admired, that no notion
of rivalry had crossed her mind; and Eustacie's inheritance was
regarded by her as reserved for her brother, and the means of
aggradizement an prosperity for herself and her father.  She looked
upon the child as a sort of piece of property of the family, to be
guarded and watched over for her brother; and when she had first
discovered the error that the young baron was making between the
two daughters of the house, it was partly in kindness to Eustacie,
partly to carry out her father's plans, and partly from her own
pleasure in conversing with anything so candid and fresh as
Berenger, that she had maintained the delusion.