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"He is now applying to have her made a ward in Chancery, when, of course, she will be under the jurisdiction of the court." "If you come to me, Mr. Pixley, when Miss Brandt is a ward of court, I will tell you now what my answer would be. I should tell you that your English court has no jurisdiction here. Miss Brandt is out of bounds and is quite free to do as she pleases.
Like General Trochu of the Siege of Paris fame, I said in my most mysterious manner, "I have my plan," and sent her into dinner comforted. But I had no plan. My next interview with Madame Brandt brought me no further. We have established telephonic communications.
After walking for a few minutes in a direction which was quite new to me, we stopped in a gloomy little square, with a plot of neglected garden-ground in the middle of it. Pointing to a lower window in one of the houses, in which a light dimly appeared, my guide said in Dutch: "Office of Van Brandt, sir," bowed, and left me. I advanced to the window.
Major von Brandt hastened after her and offered his arm to her. Madame Camilla, who had not lost a single word of her short conversation with Major von Brandt, followed the princess downstairs, and remained standing humbly at the foot of it till the princess and her companion had entered the carriage and the coach door had been closed.
And presently, Miss Brandt, wearying no doubt of perdrix, perdrix, toujours perdrix, that is to say of Charles's sprightly chatter, of which she doubtless got more than enough at home, essayed conversation with the silent one at her other side, and, one may suppose, found it more to her taste, or more of a novelty, than the Pixley outflow.
We have a fishing establishment in the ancient city of Enkhuizen, on the shores of the Zuyder Zee. Mr. Ernest Van Brandt had a share in it at one time, which he afterward sold. Of late years our profits from this source have been diminishing; and we think of giving up the fishery, unless our prospects in that quarter improve after a further trial.
I returned to the street, to wait for Mrs. Van Brandt at the gallery door until the performance was over. Who was the man in attendance on her the man whom I had seen sitting behind her, and talking familiarly over her shoulder? While I paced backward and forward before the door, that one question held possession of my mind, until the oppression of it grew beyond endurance.
I myself will fix it for you." While he was searching my table for pins the chasseur of the hotel came with a message from Madame Brandt. Would Monsieur come at once to Madame in her private room? "I'll come now," I said. "Professor, you must excuse me." "Don't mention it. I shall occupy myself in hanging the picture in the most artistic way possible."
Here he engaged a party of twenty-one men, principally Creole and Canadian boatmen, who were familiar with Indian life, having been long engaged in the service of the various fur companies. In addition to these boatmen, Lieutenant Fremont had under his charge, Henry Brandt, nineteen years of age, son of Colonel J.B. Brant, of St.
Hitherto the delicacy of the situation had caused me to refer to Lola no more than was necessary, and in my narrative I had purposely left her vague. "That's a great debt," said Eleanor. "It is, indeed." "You're not the man to leave such a debt unpaid?" "I try to repay it by giving Madame Brandt my devoted friendship." Her eyes never wavered as they held mine.
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