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I called to her in English, and she answered in her own tongue, which I could not understand. I answered her as well as I could in the Melais, that I was from Fort Marlborough, and going to Croy that I was making my escape from the English, by whom I had been taken in war.
Aremberg and Ligny, Arachot, Chimay, Croy, Caprea, Montigny, and most of the great patrician families of the Netherlands fought on the royal side. The revolution which had saved the country from perdition and created the great Netherland republic was a burgher revolution, and burgher statesmen now controlled the State.
She would sit there massive, at least, while one attempted it; whereas Miss Croy, the handsome girl, would indulge in incalculable movements that might interfere with one's tour. She was real, none the less, and everything and everybody were real; and it served them right, no doubt, the pair of them, for having rushed into their adventure.
When the duke interfered in a peremptory fashion and insisted that the appointment should be made at his instance, the son refused to accept his authority, especially as his father's nominee was Philip de Croy, one of a family already over-dominant in the Burgundian court. At least, that was Charles's opinion.
Kate Croy remembered well what their mother, in a different quarter, had made of it; and it was Marian's marked failure to pluck the fruit of resentment that committed them, as sisters, to an almost equal fellowship in abjection.
She's extremely kind to me, but it's time, she says, that we should understand each other." Mr. Croy fully assented. "Of course it is high time; and I can quite imagine what she means by it." "Are you very sure?" "Oh, perfectly. She means that she'll 'do' for you handsomely if you'll break off all relations with me. You speak of her condition. Her condition's of course that."
With what I see you're full of you treated them beautifully. Isn't Kate charming when she wants to be?" Poor Susie's expression, contending at first, as in a high fine spasm, with different dangers, had now quite let itself go. She had to make an effort to reach a point in space already so remote. "Miss Croy? Oh she was pleasant and clever. She knew," Mrs. Stringham added. "She knew."
The Lancaster Gate family, he clearly intended, in which he included its American recruits, and included above all Kate Croy a young person blessedly easy to take care of. She knew people, and people knew her, and she was the handsomest thing there this last a declaration made by Milly, in a sort of soft mid-summer madness, a straight skylark-flight of charity, to Aunt Maud.
What was presently settled among them was that Milly, who betrayed on this occasion a preference more marked than usual, should not hold herself obliged to climb that evening the social stair, however it might stretch to meet her, and that, Mrs. Lowder and Mrs. Stringham facing the ordeal together, Kate Croy should remain with her and await their return.
Lord Mark himself, for that matter, had made it easy by saying a little while before that no one among them did anything for nothing. "What then" she was aware of being abrupt "does Miss Croy, if she's so interested, do it for? What has she to gain by her lovely welcome? Look at her now!"
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