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Mrs. Lowder was her only "real" aunt, not the wife of an uncle, and had been thereby, both in ancient days and when the greater trouble came, the person, of all persons, properly to make some sign; in accord with which our young woman's feeling was founded on the impression, quite cherished for years, that the signs made across the interval just mentioned had never been really in the note of the situation.
Lowder had left her behind, and on the occasion, subsequently, of the corresponding date in her own life not the second, the sad one, with its dignity of sadness, but the first, with the meagreness of its supposed felicity she had been, in the same spirit, almost patronisingly pitied.
If he were public she'd be willing, as I understand, to help him; if he were rich without being anything else she'd do her best to swallow him. As it is, she taboos him." "In short," said Mrs. Stringham as with a private purpose, "she told you, the sister, all about it. But Mrs. Lowder likes him," she added. "Mrs. Condrip didn't tell me that." "Well, she does, all the same, my dear, extremely."
Lowder had said to Milly at Matcham that she and her niece, as allies, could practically conquer the world; but though it was a speech about which there had even then been a vague, grand glamour, the girl read into it at present more of an approach to a meaning.
It was almost at present as if her poor prevision had been rebuked by the majesty she could scarcely call it less of the event, or at all events by the commanding character of the two figures she could scarcely call that less either mainly presented. Mrs. Lowder and her niece, however dissimilar, had at least in common that each was a great reality.
The intensity the circumstance in question might wear to the informed imagination would have been sufficiently revealed for us, no doubt and with other things to our purpose in two or three of those confidential passages with Mrs. Lowder that she now permitted herself.
Lowder accepted, admired and explained his new aspect laid upon him practically the weight of a declaration. What he hadn't in the least stated her own manner was perpetually stating; it was as haunted and harmless that she was constantly putting him down.
Langenau talked constantly to Miss Lowder, with whom he had been dancing, and never looked once toward where I had been sitting. A long time after, when they had been dancing hours it seemed to me Miss Lowder seemed to feel faint or tired, and Mr. Langenau came out with her, and took her up-stairs to the dressing-room.
They saw her again in the open window, where, looking at them, she had paused producing thus, on Aunt Maud's part, almost too impressive a "Hush!" Mrs. Lowder indeed, without loss of time, smothered any danger in a sweeping retreat with Susie; but Milly's words to her, just uttered, about dealing with her niece directly, struck our young woman as already recoiling on herself.
"Yes, she won't be nobody. Besides," said Mrs. Lowder, "we're talking in the air." Her companion sadly assented. "We're leaving everything out." "It's nevertheless interesting." And Mrs. Lowder had another thought. "He's not quite nobody either." It brought her back to the question she had already put and which her friend hadn't at the time dealt with. "What in fact do you make of him?"
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