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At the end of three days of suspense she had sought her Fairy Godmother only to meet with a letter from the investigator which sent hope to the winds. In it he stated that aside from the station master at the lonely little railway station, he had encountered no one who recalled seeing a young man of the description of Tom Gray.
Lord Ellerton, who was very like Lord Dundreary every way you took him, gave his arm to Kate, and Stanford, with a smile and an indescribable glance, took possession of Rose. "Has your fairy godmother been dressing you, Rose? I never saw you look so bewildering. What is it?" Rose shook back her curls saucily, though tingling to her finger-ends at the praise.
One beautiful sunny afternoon they rode up on top of a Fifth Avenue motor 'bus to 90th Street, and Godmother pointed out the houses of many multi-millionaires. She knew things about many of them, too sweet, human, heart-touching things about their disappointments and unsatisfied yearnings which made one feel rather sorry for them than envious of their splendours.
On the night of the 28th of January, 1649, Madame de Longueville gave birth to her last child, a son, who was baptized by De Retz, having for its godfather the Provost, for its godmother the Duchess de Bouillon, and who received the name of Charles de Paris; the child of the Fronde, handsome, talented, and brave; who during his life was the troublesome hope, the melancholy joy of his mother, and the cause of her greatest grief in 1672, when he perished, at the passage of the Rhine, by the side of his uncle, Condé.
At this new proof of invincible distrust, the young people exchanged a look of compassion; then, taking the sick woman's hand in hers, Mariette said tenderly: "Yes, dear godmother, we shall keep you always with us, and nurse you as we would our own mother; you shall see how happy we shall make life to you " "Yes, we shall make your life a dream of happiness," added Louis, affectionately.
Suddenly a voice called Tartarin by his name, the voice of an old fairy godmother, hoarse, broken, and cracked. "Monsieur Tartarin!" three times. "Who's calling me?" "It's I, Monsieur Tartarin. Don't you recognise me? I am the old stage-coach who used to do the road betwixt Nimes and Tarascon twenty year agone.
"My dear godmother, let me present to you Mrs. Bailey," and Sylvia felt herself being closely, rather pitilessly, inspected by shrewd though not unkindly eyes eyes sunken, dimmed by age, yet seeing more, perhaps, than younger eyes would have seen. The old Marquise beckoned to Count Paul, and together they slowly walked through into the garden and paced away down a shaded alley.
The wee woman looked each morning to see if the magic of the flower had begun to work but morning after morning nothing changed. "It is long waiting and weary watching for magic things to work," said she to herself; but because of what her fairy godmother had told her, she tended the flower from day to day, and hoped in her heart that something might come of it yet.
When this waltz was finished she was claimed by many more partners, and danced till she was weary, then, between two "extras," she went in search of Miss Leigh, whom she found sitting patiently in one of the great drawing-rooms, looking somewhat pale and tired. "Oh, my godmother!" she exclaimed, running up to her. "I had forgotten how late it is getting!" Miss Lavinia smiled cheerfully.
Lambert, Ludwig, Peter, and Carl are all there, cool, and in good skating-order. Hans is not far off. Evidently he is going to join in the race, for his skates are on, the very pair that he sold for seven guilders. He had soon suspected that his fairy godmother was the mysterious "friend" who had bought them.
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