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Isabelle flicked a wrist dismissively. "You're not missing much." "You're right about the sunsets. Wonderful." They drank to Hawaiian sunsets. "So, Joe, you heading back soon?" "Tomorrow afternoon, Isabelle." He was beginning to like her. "Come on over; we'll have a drink and listen to the Queen sing Aloha Oe. " She held his eye for a moment. "Maybe I'll do that.
"I sent your message, Isabelle." And he went to dress for dinner. The dinner that night of the three men and the woman was tense and still at first. All the radiance had faded from Isabelle's face, leaving it white, and she moved as if she were numb. Vickers, watching her face, was sad at heart, miserable as he had been since he had seen her and Cairy together.
" having conferred his affections on the young Countess Isabelle de Croye, the Duke expects your Majesty will, on your part, as he on his, yield your assent to the marriage, and unite with him in endowing the right noble couple with such an appanage, as, joined to the Countess's estates, may form a fit establishment for a Child of France."
"But to give yourself to me so absolutely, and to refuse yourself to me as absolutely! to mingle such sweet and bitter drops in the same cup honey and wormwood and present it to my lips! only you, Isabelle, could be capable of such strange contradictions." "Yes, I AM an odd girl," she replied, "and therein I resemble my poor mother; but such as I am you must put up with me.
When he has been there alone with us and the family, he has frequently used expressions showing his strong leaning toward the loyalists' side." "I don't put much faith in that," Harvey said. "He knows how strongly Mr. Jackson and the girls lean toward the Crown, and would say anything that he thought would please Isabelle.
Nevertheless the guide seemed attached to her, and when on a Sunday the family went down to the settlement, following the trail through the camp, Isabelle could see him help the woman at the wire fence, carrying on one arm the youngest child, trailing his gun in the other hand. "He must care for her!" Isabelle remarked. "Why, of course. Why not?" her husband asked.
Isabelle and Cairy, coming up the terrace steps, heard the notes and stopped to listen. "Charming!" Cairy murmured. "His own?" "How I wish he would try to do something, and get his work played by our orchestras! He could if he would only interest himself enough. But the ambition seems gone out of him. He merely smiles when I talk about it." "He'll come back to it," Cairy grinned.
So he kissed her in the hall before the others, made some commonplace suggestion about the place, and with his bag in hand left, nodding to them all as he got into the carriage. Isabelle, who had appeared dazed these days, as if, her heart and mind occupied in desperate inner struggle, her body lived mechanically, left the two men to themselves and went to her room.
When she saw him, she cried out, frightened by his white face: "Vick! What has happened?" "Mrs. Conry is downstairs, Isabelle. I want her to stay here with you to-night!" "Vick! What is it?" Isabelle demanded with staring eyes. "I will tell you to-morrow." "No now!" She clutched her wrap about her shiveringly and drew him within the room. "It's I am going away, Isabelle, at once with Mrs. Conry.
And the ironical smile subtly softened to a glow of affection. Here, at least, was an illusion! Isabelle, watching these two, understood all the lines, the smile, the light cynicism the Windward Islands! She put her arms impulsively about the mother and the child, hugging them closely. Margaret looked up into her shining eyes and pressed her hand....
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