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She was lying down in her dressing-room; she said she was ill." He looked at her for a moment it was evident she was telling the simple truth. "Send Miss Silver here." "I am not sure that Miss Silver is in the house, Sir Everard. I saw her go out with Edwards some time ago but I will go and see." Claudine departed. Five minutes passed ten; he stood rigid as stone.
Cory was a man who 'had a way with him, and I can see Claudine flattered at the idea of being peace-maker between 'two such nice gen'lemen as Mr. Cory and Mr. Fear. Her commonest asseveration quite genuine, too is that she doesn't like to have the gen'lemen making trouble about her! So the poor imbecile led him to where her husband was waiting.
What was he about to learn now? He longed to interrogate quickly, but he saw that Lerouge told his story with difficulty, laboriously disentangling his recollections; he was guided by a single thread which the least interruption might seriously entangle. "What Claudine proposed to me," continued the sailor, "was villainous; and I am an honest man.
These reminders of a lowly Past were very distasteful to Claudine. Once he talked in his Sleep about Cod-fish Balls, and next morning she lit on him something ramfugious. After the Parisian triumphs it seemed a safe bet to return home and make a new effort to mingle with the Face-Cards. This time they took a House in New York and went after Grand Opera as if they knew what it was about.
And now I've come to ask yez, just as a favor to me, not to wear that new bonnet from New York, to-morrow." It was some moments before, the surprise occasioned by so novel and unexpected a request left Mrs. Claudine free to make any reply. "Why, Kitty!" she at length exclaimed, "what on earth can you mean?"
I had written to a friend to procure it; but, by some means, Mrs. Claudine has obtained hers in advance of me. Mine will be here to-morrow, but I don't mean to wear it. I wish to lead." "If you were both to appear in this bonnet, the fashion would be decided," said the milliner. "I know. But I have no wish to share the honor with Mrs. Claudine.
It was great to sit in the Savoy at the Supper Hour, surrounded by the best known people mentioned in the Court Circulars. It was indeed a privilege for Elam and Claudine to be among the British Cousins, even if the British Cousins did not seem to place Elam and Claudine. Looking in any direction they could see naught but frosty and forbidding Shoulder Blades.
Her bed-spread of Brussels lace was worth ten thousand francs. A famous actress had another like it. As soon as Claudine heard this, she allowed her cat, a splendid Angora, to sleep on the bed. That trait gives you the woman. Du Bruel dared not say a word; he was ordered to spread abroad that challenge in luxury, so that it might reach the other.
Born of a poor and proud family in Grenoble, in 1681, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin was destined from childhood for the cloister. Her strong aversion to the life of a nun was unavailing, and she was sent to a convent at Montfleury. This prison does not seem to have been a very austere one, and the discipline was far from rigid.
Claudine Rollet, his sister, who was a very pretty girl, had attracted the attention of Mademoiselle de Bellefonds' brother, Alphonso; and as he paid her more attention than from such a quarter was agreeable to Jacques, the young men had had more than one quarrel on the subject, on which occasions they had each, characteristically, given vent to their enmity, the one in contemptuous monosyllables, and the other in a volley of insulting words.
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