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No matter what may be a youth's sentiment for girlhood, he never likes it to be witness of anything disparaging to his sturdy resolution and manly purpose. But Adèle had seen him shake like a reed under the deepest emotions that could give tone to character; and in his mortification at the thought, he transferred to her a share of the resentment he felt against himself.
"That is a new notion!" muttered Mme Boche in a low voice. "She was never known before to rub out even a pair of cuffs. She is a lazy creature, I do assure you. She never sews the buttons on her boots. She is just like her sister, that minx of an Adele, who stays away from the shop two days out of three. What is she rubbing now? A skirt, is it? It is dirty enough, I am sure!"
"Yes," replied Caroline, "always blowing, but never coming to blows." "You are witty, Mademoiselle Caroline," said Adele, "with your paradox. Do you know that I had an adventure at Brighton, and I am taken for you, by a very fashionable young man?" "How can you have been taken for me?" said Caroline. "The gentleman wished to find out who I was, and I would not tell him.
"Oh, well, you know what I mean," he said; "make some sort of an excuse. Of course, don't say anything which is untrue, but don't tell people our private affairs." "Do you think she'll ever go back to him?" Mrs. Dale inquired, looking at him meditatively over her glasses. "I hope not!" he said savagely. "Now stop, Adele, stop! I will not discuss that man!" "Where did she get her obstinacy?" Mrs.
Dubois meditated. "I do not know of one, sir", he said. "They all drink, swear, gamble, and profane holy things, and seem to have no respect for either God or man". "It is too true", remarked Mrs. Dubois. "Now, father", said Adèle, assuming an air of wisdom, that sat rather comically on her youthful brow, "I think Micah Mummychog would be just the person to help this gentleman".
Suddenly, "There!" said Adele. The other three in the room stood up and faced the door. The sound of a motor stopping outside. Daniel Oakley's hearty voice: "Well, it only took us five minutes from the station. Pretty good." Footsteps down the hall. Marian King stood in the doorway. They faced her, the four Baldwin and Adele and Flora and Sophy.
It occurred to her also that the vacuously amiable Adele had once or twice regarded her with the same precocious, childlike curiosity and infantine cunning she had once before exhibited.
Those dreadful words shot a pang through both their hearts which no thought of death could have done. De Catinat's head dropped forward upon his chest, and he staggered and would have fallen had Adele not caught him by the arm. "Do not fear, dear Amory," she whispered. "Other things may happen but not that, for I swear to you that I shall not survive you.
Ah! what a mercy, she thought, that Aunt Patty did not kill him, before I discovered her beautiful mode of nursing sick people. No wonder he has been crazed all this time, with those strange manoeuvres of hers! On the previous, night, Adèle had been the last of the family to retire.
The clergyman guided my hand to the place, and I wrote Adele Chabot. The knowledge what the effect of this signature might possibly have upon my husband quite overcame me, and I sank my head down upon my hands upon the table. "`I will send for a glass of water, sir, said the clergyman leaving the vestry to call the verger, or clerk, `the lady is fainting.
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