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A republican charmer must be exciting after all the blasees habituees of the London drawing-rooms." "How can you talk such nonsense, Mabel?" said Miss Cassewary. "But it is so. I feel that people must be sick of seeing me. I know I am very often sick of seeing them. Here is something fresh, and not only unlike, but so much more lovely.
"Here am I," said Suzanne, sitting down on the bed and jangling the curtain-rings back along the rod with despotic vehemence. "Quesaco, my charmer?" said the old bachelor, sitting up in bed. "Monsieur," said Suzanne, gravely, "you must be astonished to see me here at this hour; but I find myself in a condition which obliges me not to care for what people may say about it."
She is a real charmer, for when she speaks to you she makes you feel that no one matters to her but just you yourself. It is such fun talking to her, for she is very pliable I think is the word I want.
"You prefer them savage?" countered Saltash. She made a careless gesture with one hand, without replying. She did not even look towards him. "I think Miss Larpent might be quite clever in that respect," she said. "She is a born charmer." "By Jove!" he said. "What a cruel compliment!" Sheila said nothing.
Having so delivered himself, Jonathan bowed with such ease as his stiff and awkward joints might command, and thereupon withdrew from the presence of the charmer, who, with cheeks suffused with blushes and with eyes averted, made no endeavor to detain him. So ended the only adventure of moment that ever happened him in all his life.
He shrank, gasping for breath, as the truth dawned upon him; and then the voice of another sounded close beside the open carriage. "Want any help, Chick?" Nick's youthful assistant, to whom a wire had been sent from the house of the snake charmer, had appeared like an apparition out of the roadside gloom. "Ah! you're here, Patsy!" muttered Chick. "Yes. Clap a gag into this cur's mouth.
"The girl's a lady, and might be a beauty if she had more confidence in herself you know what I mean: taking herself for granted as a charmer, the way you smart women do," he said. "She isn't that kind. But with you to show her the ropes, she'll be liked by the right people. There's a softness and sweetness and genuineness that you don't often see in girls now.
"There you are wrong," I answered, "she might make me fall in love with her without any diminution of my affection for my charmer." Next day, just as I was sitting down to table with my housekeeper, I saw a carriage coming into the courtyard, and my detestable lame widow getting out of it. I was terribly put out, but the rules of politeness compelled me to go and receive her.
Diana wore a yellow robe with a black bonnet, and he commented on the becoming hues; for the first time, he noticed her dress! Lovely women? Dacier hesitated. One he saw. But surely he must admire Mrs. Fryar-Gunnett? And who steps beside her, transparently fascinated, with visage at three-quarters to the rays within her bonnet? Can it be Sir Lukin Dunstane? and beholding none but his charmer!
There was no husband there to await her, but a very devoted knight in the person of Mr. Arthur Maynwaring, who, though he gave not his name nor the ceremony of bell, book, and candle to the union, played the part of spouse to the fair charmer.
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