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She will come down directly." "And why has she deserted us for that stupid creature?" "Well," said Marneffe, "Mademoiselle Lisbeth came back from dining with the Baroness with an attack of indigestion and Mathurine asked Valerie for some tea for her, so my wife went up to see what was the matter." "And her cousin?" "He is gone." "Do you really believe that?" said the Baron.
"Prince," said Marsa Laszlo, suddenly, "do you know that I have been seeking you for a long time, and that when the Baroness Dinati presented you to me, she fulfilled one of my most ardent desires?" "Me, Mademoiselle? You have been seeking me?" "Yes, you. Tisza, of whom I spoke to you, my Tzigana mother, who bore the name of the blessed river of our country, taught me to repeat your name.
Overhead arched the rude, heavy, oaken beams, blackened with age and smoke, and underfoot was a chill pavement of stone. Upon Baron Conrad's shoulder leaned the pale, slender, yellow-haired Baroness, the only one in all the world with whom the fierce lord of Drachenhausen softened to gentleness, the only one upon whom his savage brows looked kindly, and to whom his harsh voice softened with love.
What is to be the fate of that splendid creature, as strong in her pure life under her mother's care as she is by every gift of nature? There are days when she wanders round the garden, out of spirits without knowing why; I find her with tears in her eyes " "She is one-and-twenty," said Crevel. "Must I place her in a convent?" asked the Baroness.
The princess thought that she would not mind it; it would at any rate be a change from listening monotonously to the snores of the baroness. The Twins found it much more difficult to comfort and cheer their fair-haired, freckled, but infuriated friend.
"It would be nice! You and Erebus could come to tea with me and sooper and loonch often and again!" The Twins looked at each other with eyes full of a sudden dismay. It was not in their scheme of things as they should be that they should go to the Grange in the immaculate morning dress of an English boy and girl, and spend stiff hours in the presence of a crimson baroness.
"Nay, Maria could not marry a poor fellow who was utterly penniless, and whose elder brother said he would give him nothing!" "I did it for the best, madam," says George, still blushing. "And so thou didst, O thou hypocrite!" cries the old lady. "Hypocrite, madam! and why?" asks Mr. Warrington, drawing himself up in much state. "I know all, my infant!" says the Baroness in French.
That little Monsieur de Soulas only loves my money; if I were poor, he would not even look at me." "Rosalie, my child, what are you thinking about? You are working beyond the outline," said the Baroness to her daughter, who was making worsted-work slippers for the Baron.
She held out her two forefingers some six inches apart. "The baroness did not like it. She said it was very dangerous and would give me the chills. But Doctor Arbuthnot said that it must be open. I think I sleep better."
Mademoiselle Charlotte de Luc d'Estrelles passed six months of each year with the Countess and six with the Baroness. She was twenty-five years of age, tall and blonde, with deep-set eyes under the shadow of sweeping, black lashes.
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