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He was as lean as his own walking-cane, and his air of condescending gentility put a strange emphasis on his shabby clothes, and made them ten times as noticeable as they would have been without it. And yet at the very first sight of him I was persuaded that he was a gentleman. "You are Captain Fyffe?" he said, with a marked Italian accent. "That is my name," I responded.
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I shall leave Captain Fyffe to the negotiations with Quorn, and shall arrange for communications across the frontier, which will enable me to judge of the best place and the wisest hour for an attack. I shall go alone, because I wish to excite as little notice as possible." "You must not go alone," she said, and made a movement towards him with her hands half extended.
Then the door was opened, and with a cry of "Goodbye, Fyffe!" to which I returned no answer, Brunow went away in charge of his business friend. At the first opening of the outer door the cold wind of the spring night came into the room with a burst, and scattered a handful of papers about the floor.
The other seven, General McGroierty, Colonels White, Fyffe, Loudon and Marshall, Majors King and Bailey, were all residents of Georgetown when the war broke out, and all of them, who were alive at the close, returned there. Major Bailey was the cadet who had preceded me at West Point. He was killed in West Virginia, in his first engagement.
"I am not in the least afraid of you, Captain Fyffe; my servants are in the house, and I can ring for them at any minute." This cooled me, even in the middle of my exasperation and the galling sense of impotence I felt. "I beg your pardon, Lady Rollinson. I am bewildered by your manner.
She was not at all disposed to banter to-day, but met me with perfect candor. "My time is a little limited, Captain Fyffe," she began. "Will you do me the honor to let me know at once to what I owe your visit?" "I passed you last night in Bond Street," I returned. She nodded briefly, with her lips tight set and her eyes glittering a little dangerously, I thought.
"The brave Captain Fyffe is ambitious, and has made up his mind to marry money; but Miss Rossano, whom I have the honor to know, might shrink from Captain Fyffe if she knew him to be not merely a penniless adventurer, but a perjured and heartless villain. "Madame," I replied, "I will not be so poor a diplomatist as to lose my temper over these charges.
"Brunow has put the question, sir," I answered, "and he has a right to be answered. You can guess now, I fancy, why I can give you no advice." "That is enough," said the count. "Pray understand me, my dear Fyffe. This is a matter of delicacy in which I am perhaps acting very strangely, but I have thought that you cared for my child.
Ah, Captain Fyffe, we cannot do much good in this miserable world if we try ever so hard. I have never tried very hard. I have been a frivolous, butterfly, useless creature; but at my time of life, you see, one begins to have serious fancies. And it was mine to find this poor creature an asylum, where she might hide her head from shame, and be free of all temptation.
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