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With a gesture of impatience Germaine dropped into a chair. Irma stood waiting by the drawing-room door. Sonia sat down by the bureau. There came a sharp patter of rain against the windows. "Rain! It only wanted that! It's going to be perfectly beastly!" cried Germaine. "Oh, well, you must make the best of it.
It seemed to me that Louis was entirely safe, especially in the good hands of the Lord Lieutenant, and that the great rewards which Lalor Maitland had received from the Government constituted in some measure the best security against any dangerous plotting. But I must tell you of the fate which befell the jewel he had left in my hands for Irma.
Amedee is afraid of Mademoiselle Irma, who has already thrown her mantle upon the sofa and crowned the bronze Venus de Milo with her otter toque. The young man excuses himself, he is expected at home. "Timid fellow, go!" said Maurice to him, as he conducted him to the door, laughing. What longings! What dreams! They made up all of poor Amedee's life.
The feelings of the young lady who had expressed her mind in so lively a manner Miss Miss ah yes, Craven Miss Amelia Craven did her all honour. "I will go with my husband," said Irma simply. "There's for you, Frances!" cried the Advocate, turning to his companion with a little teasing "hee-hee" of laughter, almost like the neigh of a horse; "there spoke all the woman."
"I don't say he Nicky I don't say he should always stay home evenings when Ada comes over sometimes with Leo and Irma, but night after night three times whole nights I Mosher, I'm afraid." In his utter well-being from her warming food, Mosher drank deeply and, if it must be admitted, swishingly, through his mustache, inhaling copiously the draughts of Sara's coffee.
"Countess Lena von Lenkenstein, Countess Violetta d'Isorella, signorina Irma di Karski." She spoke the names out like a sum that she was paying down in gold pieces, and immediately rang the bell for her servant and carriage, as if she had now acquitted her debt. Wilfrid bowed himself forth.
Vittoria had too severe an artistic instinct to court reality; and as much as she could she from that moment corrected the underlinings of Agostino's libretto. On the other hand, Irma fell into all his traps, and painted her Austrian heart with a prodigal waste of colour and frank energy: 'Now Leonardo is my tool: Camilla is my slave: And she I hate goes forth to cool Her rage beyond the wave.
This, being the performance which pleased Crazy most, was also the favourite with the young Sir Louis. Indeed leavetaking was difficult, though by no means on my account. For Miss Irma was all taken up with grandmother and little Louis with Crazy.
For a new purpose had stolen upon him in these weeks the sudden desire for wealth. He craved money for but one object to cast it at the feet of Irma Gluyas and then to bear her away from a world of lies to the storied Danube, where woman's rosy lip rests in clinging transports upon lips speaking the wild love of the gallant Magyar land. He now knew the power of wealth.
This with an air of triumph, very pretty to see. "And the elder, the girl?" I asked though, indeed, that I knew from the old letters of my Aunt Jen. "Irma!" she answered, some little crestfallen. "After you?" She had barely time to nod when we passed in at the lodge gate of the Nun's House.
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