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Then began the séance. La d'Elphis gave, as those sorts of people always do, a marvellously accurate account of the poor child's past,--the simple, virginal past of a very young girl,--but when it came to the future, she declared that her vision had become blurred, and that she could see nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Both the sisters pressed her to say more, to predict something of the future; and at last, speaking very reluctantly, she admitted that she saw Jeanne, pale, deathly pale, clad in a wedding-dress, and she also evoked a wonderful vision of white flowers....