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At the same time he thought it would be wise if Lady Blanche kept not only the silly gossip that was going about, but even this true and innocent fact, from Aileen's knowledge. One never knew how a girl would take such things, and he would rather explain it himself at his own time. Lady Blanche had to be content.
"Oh!..." Aileen's voice trailed off vaguely, "What do you write? Plays? Essays?..." "I why, I'm one of the best my stories appear constantly in the best magazines." Miss Smith, who had been deserted some time since by Miss Halsey, looked abject, helpless, and infuriated. "Oh! We only read the worst. It must be wonderful to be famous. Come, Alex, we must see the pictures.
Aileen's eyes were blinded to the transient quiet beauty of this scene, for she was alive to but one point in the landscape the red brick house with granite trimmings far away across the Rothel, and the man leaving the carriage which had just stopped at the front porch.
Have any of them had more nor what ye have had? Ye won't go against me in this. I'm sure ye won't. Ye can't. Ye love me too much surely ye do don't ye?" His voice weakened. His eyes almost filled. He paused and put a big, brown, horny hand on Aileen's arm. She had listened to his plea not unmoved really more or less softened because of the hopelessness of it. She could not give up Cowperwood.
In a room within the house, Cowperwood, his coat and vest off, was listening to Aileen's account of her troubles. The room in which they were sitting at the time was typical of the rather commonplace idea of luxury which then prevailed.
She was pleasing herself with the idea of such prospective control of Aileen's matrimonial interests one afternoon, just after Champney's flying visit in July, when she rose from her chair beneath the awning and, to try her strength, made her way slowly along the terrace to the library windows; they were French casements and one of them had swung outwards noiselessly in the breeze.
Octavius helped her to her feet; but for Aileen's arm around her she would have fallen again. "Take me home, Tave." She spoke in a weak voice. "I will, Aurora," he answered promptly, soothingly, although his hands trembled as he led her to a sofa; "I'll just hitch up the pair in the carryall and Hannah'll ride up with us, won't you, Hannah?" "To be sure, to be sure.
How you talk! Does gambling always affect you this way?" "No, you do. Always, apparently!" And he stared hard into her upturned eyes. Still playing ostensibly for Aileen's benefit, he now doubled the cash deposit on his system, laying down a thousand in gold. Aileen urged him to play for himself and let her watch.
Jim says when he comes out he can't niver vote again for prisident, an' it's ten chanct to wan that he'll get a job." In her earnestness she failed to notice that Aileen's face had borrowed its whiteness from the muslin over which she was bending. "Aileen " "Yes, Maggie." "I'm goin' to tell you something.
'Yes, but he won't be back for a week. He told Aileen here he wouldn't. Here I looked at them both. 'Aileen's carrying on quite a flirtation with Sir Ferdinand, says Gracey. 'I don't know what some one else would say if he saw everything. 'Doesn't he talk to any one when he comes here, or make himself pleasant? I said. 'Perhaps there's more than one in the game.
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