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Fortunately, however, our hosts were lenient and accepted my excuses. Lord and Lady Brougham, Duke de Croy, and many others were there. And who else do you think? No less a personage than Jenny Lind! You may imagine my delight at seeing her "the Goddess of Song," the idol of my youth about whom still hung a halo.
Kate took one of her walks with Densher just after her visit to Mr. Croy; but most of it went, as usual, to their sitting in talk.
I want to be in spite of Miss Croy, who came with me last. If you can help, so much the better and also of course if one can, a little, one's self. Except for that you and me doing our best I like you to see me just as I am. Yes, I like it and I don't exaggerate. Shouldn't one, at the start, show the worst so that anything after that may be better?
He loitered, on the best of the relenting days, the several occasions we speak of, along the part of the Gardens nearest to Lancaster Gate, and when, always, in due time, Kate Croy came out of her aunt's house, crossed the road and arrived by the nearest entrance, there was a general publicity in the proceeding which made it slightly anomalous.
But the young archduke's able governor, William de Croy, Lord of Chievres, "had early trained him," says M. Mignet, "to the understanding and management of his various interests; from the time that he was fifteen, Charles presided every day at his council; there he himself read out the contents of despatches which were delivered to him the moment they arrived, were it even in the dead of night; his council had become his school, and business served him for books. . . . Being naturally endowed with superior parts, a penetrating intellect and rare firmness of character, he schooled himself to look Fortune in the face without being intoxicated by her smiles or troubled at her frowns, to be astonished by nothing that happened, and to make up his mind in any danger.
He has maintained towards the duke the most complete silence on the affair of Genoa, and the proposition concerning Italy. Croy does not think there is anything in it, but if the thing were so it ought not to be secret.
Origin of the war with Sweden Peace with the Turks Charles XII Siege of Narva The frontier Plan of the campaign Indignation of the King of Sweden Remonstrances of Holland and England The King of Sweden at Riga the Czar a subordinate General Croy His plans Operations of the king Surprise and defeat of the Russians Terrible slaughter Whimsical plan for disposing of the prisoners Effect upon the Czar New plans and arrangements
"What has Mrs. Lowder written about him? Has she written that he has been with them?" "She has mentioned him but once it was in her letter before the last. Then she said something." "And what did she say?" Mrs. Stringham produced it with an effort. "Well it was in reference to Miss Croy. That she thought Kate was thinking of him.
She had grown red and almost fat, which were not happy signs of mourning; less and less like any Croy, particularly a Croy in trouble, and sensibly like her husband's two unmarried sisters, who came to see her, in Kate's view, much too often and stayed too long, with the consequence of inroads upon the tea and bread-and-butter matters as to which Kate, not unconcerned with the tradesmen's books, had feelings.
But how can that 'help," he pursued, "with what she knows?" "What she knows? That needn't prevent." He wondered. "Prevent her loving us?" "Prevent her helping you. She's like that," Kate Croy explained. It took indeed some understanding. "Making nothing of the fact that I love another?" "Making everything," said Kate. "To console you." "But for what?" "For not getting your other."
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